British Postal Agencies (Commonwealth and Foreign Post) Warrant, 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1959/501 |
1959 No. 501
The British Postal Agencies (Commonwealth and Foreign Post) Warrant, 195919thMarch 1959
26thMarch 1959
1stApril 1959
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
1. Interpretation.
2. Application.
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. Articles grouped together in one packet.
8. Air mail packets.
9. Limits of weight and size.
10. Postal facilities.
11. Registration.
12. Compensation for registered packets.
13. Compulsory registration and insurance.
14. Insured letters.
15. Compensation for insured letters.
16. Compensation—general.
17. Advice of delivery and Enquiries.
18. Redirection.
19. Remission of postage and fees.
20. Application of British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959.
21. Revocation
22. Citation and Commencement.
We, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of all powers given to us by sections 5, 8, 11, 15, and 81 of the Post Office Act, 1953(a) and of all other powers enabling us in this behalf, do, by this Warrant, made on the representation of Her Majesty's Postmaster-General (testified by his signing the same), and under the hands of two of us the said Commissioners, order, direct, and declare as follows:—
Interpretation
1.—(1) In this Warrant, 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 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 twenty-four of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959(b) as applied by regulation twenty of this Warrant;
"incoming" applied to a postal packet of any description means received at a British postal agency through the post;
"insured letter" means any insured letter 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 Regulation 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;
"outgoing" applied to a postal packet of any description means posted in a British postal agency;
"parcel" means a postal packet which is posted in a British postal agency as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of the British Postal Agencies (Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Post) Warrant, 1958(c), or is received at a British postal agency from any other place by parcel post;
(a) 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 36.
(b) S.I. 1959/498 (Pt. II, p. 2131, of this vol.).
(c) S.I. 1958/830 (1958 II, p. 1985).
"Phonopost packet" means an incoming postal packet containing a recorded spoken message, being a packet recognized as a Phonopost packet in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Convention for the time being in force;
"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, Phonopost packet and a packet to which paragraph (1) of regulation seven 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 twenty-two of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959 as applied by regulation twenty of this Warrant;
"reply postcard" means a postcard in two parts, one part (or where regulation twenty-one of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959 as applied by regulation twenty of this Warrant 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 twenty-five of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959 as applied by regulation twenty of this Warrant;
"single postcard" means a postcard other than a reply postcard;
"small packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation twenty-six of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Post Warrant, 1959 as applied by regulation twenty of this Warrant;
and other expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Act.
(2) Any reference in this Warrant to the provisions of any enactment warrant 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 warrant or regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), applies to the interpretation of this Warrant as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Application
2. The provisions of this Warrant shall apply exclusively to postal packets transmitted by post in either direction between a British postal agency and any other place (including another British postal agency).
Letters and Postcards
3.—(1) The rates of postage specified in Part I of the First Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on letters and postcards posted in a British postal agency for transmission to another British postal agency, or to the Pakistan postal agency at Gwadur.
(2) The rates of postage specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on outgoing letters and postcards posted in a
(a) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
British postal agency for transmission to any of the countries or places specified in the Second Schedule hereto.
(3) The rates of postage specified in Part 3 of the First Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on all other outgoing letters and postcards.
Reduced rate printed packets
4.—(1) The rates of postage specified in item 1 of Part I of the Third Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on outgoing printed packets to which this regulation applies.
(2) Subject as hereinafter mentioned this regulation applies to:—
(a) Any registered newspaper;
(b) Any other newspaper, or other periodical publication, which complies with the following conditions:—
(i) It is printed and published in the British postal area or a British postal agency;
(ii) It is issued in consecutive numbers at intervals of not more than one year;
(iii) It consists only of paper or of some substance ordinarily used for printing;
(iv) It consists only of works of a literary character or any other printed matter and is not in the nature of current and personal correspondence;
(v) The full title, and the date, month or year of issue, or an indication of the frequency of issue, are conspicuously printed on the cover (or, in the absence of a cover, at the top of the first page) and on every detached sheet, page or piece of paper which is issued as part of such newspaper or publication;
(c) Any sewn or bound book;
(d) Any pamphlets, which expression for this purpose means short printed publications or works of a literary character in book form whether or not enclosed within covers or (if comprising more than one sheet) sewn or bound;
(e) Any sheets of music (except perforated sheets intended to be used with automatic musical instruments);
(f) Any maps:
Provided that:—
(i) This regulation shall not apply to:
printed packets of a commercial character (such as catalogues, prospectuses or price lists);
newspapers or other periodical publications with advertisement slips annexed;
books, pamphlets, sheets of music or maps which contain publicity matter or advertisements otherwise than on the cover or fly leaves;
nor shall this regulation apply to any printed packet unless the cover thereof is clearly marked "Printed Papers. Reduced Rate" on the left hand side of the space above the address.
(ii) The decision of the Postmaster-General as to whether a particular packet comes within this regulation shall be final.
Other printed packets, commercial packets, sample packets and small packets
5.—(1) The rates of postage specified in Part I of the Third Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on printed packets and sample packets posted in a British postal agency for transmission to another British postal agency, or to the Pakistan postal agency at Gwadur.
(2) Except as otherwise provided by regulation four or by paragraph (1) of this regulation, the rates of postage specified in Part 2 of the Third Schedule hereto shall be charged and paid on outgoing printed packets, commercial packets, and sample packets, and on outgoing small packets addressed to any country or...
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