Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951

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Number 17 of 1951.

POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1951.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Interpretation.
2.	Repeal of limit on postage rates for inland registered newspapers.
3.	Repeal of limit on postage rates for newspapers sent out of the State.
4.	Special postage rates for articles specially adapted for the use of the blind.
5.	Forms, amounts and poundage of postal orders.
6.	Amendment of postal rates.
7.	Extension of section 14 of the Post Office (Parcels) Act, 1882.
8.	Application of certain sections of the Act of 1908 to aircraft and amendment of those sections.
9.	Amendment of sections 20 and 21 of the Act of 1908.
10.	Cash-on-Delivery service.
11.	Rates for telephone messages to other States.
12.	Prohibition of use of certain words, letters, signs or marks.
13.	Offences in connection with telephones.
14.	Adaptation of references to “His Majesty's service” in the Act of 1908.
15.	Short title, citation and construction.

Acts Referred to
Customs Free Airport Act, 1947	No. 5 of 1947

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Number 17 of 1951.

POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1951.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE POST OFFICE ACT, 1908 , AND OTHER ENACTMENTS RELATING TO THE POST OFFICE. [17th July, 1951.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—