British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Regulations 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1965/1735 |
1965 No. 1735
POST OFFICE
The British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Regulations 196520thSeptember 1965
19thOctober 1965
13thDecember 1965
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
Interpretation and Application
1. Interpretation.
2. Application.
PART II
Rates of Postage
3. Letters and postcards.
4. Reduced rate printed packets.
5. Other printed packets, commercial packets, sample packets and small packets.
6. Literature for the blind.
7. Insured boxes.
8. Articles grouped together in one packet.
9. Air mail packets.
10. Bulk postage.
PART III
General Conditions
11. Prohibitions.
12. Contents of certain packets.
13. Packing and posting.
14. Limits of weight and size.
15. Articles liable to duty.
16. Payment of postage and fees.
17. Unpaid or underpaid postage.
18. Treatment of irregular packets.
19. Undeliverable packets.
PART IV
Conditions Relating to Particular Classes of Packets
20. Postcards.
21. Printed packets.
22. Despatch of certain printed packets.
23. Commercial packets.
24. Sample packets.
25. Small packets.
26. Literature for the blind.
27. Air mail packets.
PART V
Postal Facilities
28. Postal facilities.
29. Late fee packets.
30. Express delivery.
31. Transmission in bulk.
32. Certificate of posting.
33. Registration.
34. Compensation for registered packets.
35. Compulsory registration and insurance.
36. Insured letters.
37. Compensation for insured letters.
38. Insured boxes.
39. Compensation—general.
40. Advice of delivery and enquiries.
41. Redirection.
42. Postal packets in bond.
PART VI
General
43. Postal packets posted on ships or by Forces abroad.
44. Priority of letter post.
45. Remission of postage and fees.
46. Application of Inland Post Regulations.
47. Saving for Postal Packets (Customs and Excise) Regulations.
48. Revocation.
49. Citation and commencement.
SCHEDULES
1. Rates of Postage on Letters and Postcards.
2. Specified Countries or Places.
3. Other Rates of Postage.
4. Limits of Weight and Size.
5. Insured Letters: Compensation Fees and Maximum Compensation.
6. Postal Packets in Bond.
7. Application of Inland Post Regulations.
8. Regulations Revoked.
I, The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, M.P., Her Majesty's Postmaster General, by virtue of the powers conferred on me by sections 5, 8, 11, 15 and 81 of the Post Office Act 1953(a) (as amended or substituted by section 28 of and the Schedule to the Post Office Act 1961(b)), and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby make the following regulations:
PART I
INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION
Interpretation
1.—(1) In these regulations, except so far as the contrary is provided or the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:
"the Act" means the Post Office Act 1953;
"air letter" means an air mail packet (not being a Forces air letter) consisting of a letter written on a special air letter form provided or approved by the Postmaster General;
"air mail packet" means an outgoing postal packet intended by the sender to be conveyed through any part of its course in the post by an air mail service, not being a letter or a postcard addressed to a destination to which letters and postcards are ordinarily conveyed by an air mail service although not bearing any indication of the sender's intention that they should be so conveyed;
"air mail service" means a service established by or under the direction of the Postmaster General for the conveyance of mails by air;
"coin" means coin (whether or not current), except such as is used or designed for purposes of ornament;
"commercial packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 23;
"Commonwealth country" includes any of the territories referred to in Part I of Schedule 2;
"customs duty" includes purchase tax;
"Forces air letter" means an air mail packet consisting of a letter written on a special Forces air letter form provided by the Postmaster General and addressed to, or sent to the British postal area by, a member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom serving abroad or on board a ship of the Royal Navy on the high seas or in any port or place outside the British postal area;
"gold bullion" means uncoined and unmanufactured gold;
(a) 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 36.
"incoming" applied to a postal packet of any description means received at a post office in the British postal area through the post;
"insured letter" and "insured box" mean respectively any insured letter and insured box which is for the time being transmissible under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Agreement for the exchange of insured letters and boxes for the time being in force, and the detailed Regulations made thereunder;
"letter" includes any communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence, and also includes a packet transmitted at the letter rate of postage and containing goods or articles of merchandise;
"literature for the blind" means:
(i) books or papers (including letters to or from blind persons) impressed or otherwise prepared for the use of the blind;
(ii) plates bearing the characters of writing used for the blind;
(iii) voice records and special paper intended solely for the use of the blind provided that they are sent by or addressed to an institute for the blind;
"member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom or of any other Commonwealth country" and "member of the armed forces of any State allied with the United Kingdom" include a member of any auxiliary service to such respective forces and a person attached to such respective forces (although not a member thereof) who is permitted to use a forces address;
"outgoing" applied to a postal packet of any description means posted in the British postal area;
"parcel" means a postal packet which is posted in the British postal area as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of the British Common-wealth and Foreign Parcel Post Regulations 1965(a), or is received at a post office in the British postal area from abroad by parcel post;
"Phonopost packet" means an incoming postal packet containing a recorded spoken message, being a packet recognised as a Phonopost packet in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Convention for the time being in force;
"postal form" means a form issued by or under the authority of the Postmaster General;
"postal packet" means (except where otherwise expressed) a letter, postcard, printed packet, commercial packet, sample packet, small packet, packet consisting of literature for the blind, insured box, Phonopost packet, and a packet to which regulation 8(1) applies, and accordingly does not include a telegram or (except in the foregoing definition of "parcel") a parcel;
"postcard" means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Convention for the time being in force, and includes (except where otherwise expressed) a reply postcard;
"prescribed" means prescribed by the Postmaster General;
"printed packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 21;
"reply postcard" means a postcard in two parts, one part (or where regulation 20 so allows, both parts) of which may without further payment be again transmitted through the post;
"sample packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 24;
"single postcard" means a postcard other than a reply postcard;
(a) S.I. 1965/1734 (1965 III, p. 4859).
"small packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 25;
and other expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Act.
(2) Any reference in these regulations to the provisions of any enactment or regulations shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to those provisions as amended re-enacted or replaced by any subsequent enactment or regulations.
(3) Any reference in any regulations to the provisions of any regulations revoked by these regulations shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to the corresponding provisions of these regulations.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889(a) applies for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if these regulations and the regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
Application
2.—(1) These regulations, except where otherwise expressed, apply exclusively to postal packets transmitted by post from or to the British postal area otherwise than under the Inland Post Regulations 1963(b).
(2) These regulations do not apply to parcels.
PART II
RATES OF POSTAGE
Letters and postcards
3.—(1) The rates of postage specified in Part I of Schedule 1 shall be charged and paid on letters and postcards:
(a) posted in the British postal area for transmission to a person in any of the countries or places specified in Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2;
(b) posted on board a ship registered in any part of the British postal area while the ship is on the high seas, for transmission to a person in any of the countries or places specified in Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3 of Schedule 2;
(c) posted in the British postal area, or posted on board a ship registered in any part of the British postal area while the ship is on the high seas:
(i) for transmission to a person on board a ship of the Royal Navy (whether on the high seas or in any port or place outside the British postal area); or
(ii) for transmission to a member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom or of any other Commonwealth country serving outside the British postal area, or a member of the armed forces of any State allied with the United Kingdom serving outside the British postal area with the armed forces of the United Kingdom or of any other Commonwealth country, being transmission through a British Forces' Post Office or a civilian Postal Administration in any Commonwealth or foreign country which has agreed to deliver without surcharge letters and postcards at the said rates.
(2) The rates of postage...
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