S.I. No. 140/1985 - Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 19) Scheme, 1985.

S.I. No. 140 of 1985.

FOREIGN PARCEL POST AMENDMENT (NO. 19) SCHEME, 1985.

AN POST, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 70 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act. 1983, and with consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme:

1. (i) This Scheme may be cited as the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 19) Scheme, 1985.

(ii) This Scheme shall be operative with effect from the 25th day of February, 1985.

2. In this Scheme—

"the Principal Warrant" means the Foreign Post Warrant, 1953 ( S.I. No. 418 of 1953 ); "Warrant No. 17" means the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 17) Warrant, 1982 ( S.I. No. 60 of 1982 ).

3. The third proviso of Regulation 22 of the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for "four hundred pounds" of "one thousand pounds".

4. The Second Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 3 of Warrant No. 17) of the entries in the First Schedule to this Scheme.

5. The Third Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 4 of Warrant No. 17) of the entries in the Second Schedule to this Scheme.

6. Part I (inserted by Regulation 5 of the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 16) Warrant, 1981 ( S.I. No. 308 of 1981 )) and Part II (inserted by Regulation 5 of Warrant No. 17) of the Fourth Schedule to the Principal Warrant are hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein of the entries in the Third Schedule to this Scheme.

7. The Fifth Schedule to the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein (inserted by Regulation 6 of Warrant No. 17) by the entries in the Fourth Schedule to this Scheme.

8. The Schedule to the Foreign Parcel Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant, 1983 ( S.I. No. 18 of 1983 ) is hereby amended by the substitution for the entries therein of the entries in the Fifth Schedule to this Scheme.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Maximum Postage:
Parcel (except an Air Mail parcel or unbagged containerised parcel):	£38 for a parcel not exceeding 10 kg.
Unbagged containerised parcel: (a) containerised by An Post: (b) containerised by customer:	£3.25 per kg. £3.25 per kg. on the total capacity of a 40 foot container, less £180
Air Mail Parcel:	£7 per 250g.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Customs Clearance Fee:

On each parcel where customs duty is payable:

Outgoing Express Delivery Fee:

Advice of Delivery Fee on outgoing insured parcel:

£1.00

50p

30p

THIRD SCHEDULE

PART I (Uninsured Parcels)

Weight of Parcel

Compensation

Not over 5 kg:

Not over 10 kg:

£20

£30

Part II (Outgoing insured parcels)

Compensation Fee	Compensation
p	£
10	100
20	200
30	300
40	400
50	500
60	600
70	700
80	800
90	900
100	1,000

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Cash-on-Delivery Parcels:
Cash-on-Delivery Fee:	£2.25 on outgoing parcel

FIFTH SCHEDULE

Maximum Postage
Surface Air Lifted parcel (except parcel bagged by customer):	£5.25 for a parcel not exceeding 1 kilogramme in weight together with £1.65 for each 500 grammes or fraction of 500 grammes in excess of 1 kilogramme.
Surface Air Lifted parcel bagged by customer:	£4.50 per kilogramme.

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 22nd day of February 1985.

PRESENT when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto:

H. Cooke		Gerard P. Harvey

Name		Director

Assistant Principal		Jim Treacy
Description		Secretary

An Post, General Post Office, Dublin 1.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of February, 1985.

JIM MITCHELL.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Scheme applies to the Foreign Parcel Post Service and comes into operation on 25th February, 1985. It authorises increases in the maximum postage which may be charged on foreign parcels and in the fees charged for insurance, customs clearance, cash-on-delivery and advice of delivery. It also authorises increases in compensation for insured and uninsured parcels and a reduction in the Express delivery fee.