Inland Post Regulations 1963
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1963 No. 2137
POST OFFICE
The Inland Post Regulations 196330thDecember 1963
6thJanuary 1964
20thJanuary 1964
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION
1. Interpretation.
2. Application.
PART II
POSTAGE
3. Rates of postage.
4. Additional postage on late posted packets.
5. Additional postage on certain parcels.
PART III
GENERAL CONDITIONS
6. Prohibitions.
7. Packets containing others for different persons.
8. Packing.
9. Limits of size and weight.
10. Payment of postage and fees.
11. Treatment of irregular packets.
12. Return of undeliverable postal packets (except parcels).
13. Return of undeliverable parcels.
14. Treatment of packets addressed to deceased persons.
PART IV
CONDITIONS RELATING TO PARTICULAR CLASSES OF POSTAL PACKETS
15. Postcards.
16. Printed packets.
17. Despatch of certain printed packets.
18. Registration of newspapers under the Act.
19. Conditions as to registered newspapers.
20. Parcels.
21. Parcels—Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
22. Parcels in bond.
23. Articles for the use of the blind.
24. Sample packets.
25. Unaddressed packets.
PART V
POSTAL FACILITIES
26. General.
27. Express delivery.
28. Railex service.
29. Redirection by the public.
30. Evasion of postage by redirection.
31. Poste restante.
32. Rebate postings of printed packets or sample packets.
PART VI
REGISTRATION AND COMPENSATION
33. Registration.
34. Conditions as to registered packets.
35. Receipts for registered packets.
36. Compulsory registration.
37. Compensation for registered packets.
38. Compensation for unregistered parcels.
39. Compensation for unregistered express packets.
PART VII
RECORDED DELIVERY
40. Recorded delivery service.
41. Conditions as to recorded delivery packets.
42. Receipts for recorded delivery packets.
43. Compensation for recorded delivery packets.
PART VIII
CASH ON DELIVERY
44. Fees and conditions.
45. Delivery of cash on delivery packets.
46. Payment of trade charge to sender.
47. Trade charge money orders—crossing.
48. Trade charge money orders—payment to bankers.
49. Discharge to Crown by payment.
50. Void trade charge money orders.
PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
51. Stamping of paper.
52. Jury summonses.
53. Priority of letter post.
54. Variation of route.
55. Remission of postage.
56. Application of the regulations to packets to and from the Republic of Ireland.
57. Revocation.
58. Citation and commencement.
Schedule 1: Rates of postage and limits of size and weight.
Schedule 2: Postal facilities.
Schedule 3: Express delivery service.
Schedule 4: Registered postal packets.
Schedule 5: Cash on delivery packets.
Schedule 6: Fees for stamping paper for use as postcards, reply postcards, covers or envelopes.
Schedule 7: Rates of postage and limits of weight and size for postal packets to be transmitted to the Republic of Ireland.
Schedule 8: Regulations revoked.
I, The Right Honourable John Reginald Bevins, M.P., Her Majesty's Postmaster General, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15 and 81 of the Post Office Act 1953(a) (as amended or substituted by sections 21 and 28 of and the Schedule to the Post Office Act 1961(b)), section 9 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947(c), section 11 of the Juries Act 1862(d) and 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;
"articles for the use of the blind" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 23;
"business reply packet" means a letter, postcard, printed packet or sample packet, on which postage has not been prepaid, and which:
(a) is addressed to, or to the agent of, a person who has made provision to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General for the payment of postage on postal packets of those descriptions which are posted without prepayment of postage and are received by him or such agent, and
(b) is distinguished or marked in such manner as the Postmaster General may direct;
(a) 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 36.
(b) 9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 15.
(c) 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 44.
(d) 25 & 26 Vict. c. 107.
"cash on delivery packet" means a registered letter, printed packet or registered newspaper or a registered or unregistered parcel upon which the Postmaster General undertakes at the request of the sender to collect or secure the collection of a sum of money (in these regulations referred to as a trade charge) on his behalf from the addressee of the packet as a condition of delivery and upon which the sender has paid the fee for the cash on delivery service;
"coin" means coin (whether or not current) except such as is used or designed for purposes of ornament;
"customs duty" includes purchase tax;
"express delivery office" means any post office from time to time authorised by the Postmaster General for the reception of postal packets for conveyance and delivery by special messenger;
"express packet" means a postal packet conveyed and delivered by special messenger, at the request of the sender or the addressee, throughout its whole course in the post or any part thereof;
"inland", when used in relation to any postal packet or any description of postal packet, means posted in the British postal area and addressed to some place in the British postal area, but does not include a postal packet addressed to a ship of the Royal Navy, notwithstanding that the name of a port in the British postal area or the words "c/o G.P.O. London" are included in the address, if the packet has to be sent abroad for delivery to the ship;
"jewellery" means:
(a) gold, silver or platinum or other precious metal in a manufactured state; that is to say, a state in which value is added to the raw material by skilled workmanship, and in this definition are included any coins used or designed for purposes of ornament;
(b) diamonds and precious stones;
(c) watches, the cases of which are entirely or mainly composed of gold, silver or platinum or other precious metal; and
(d) any article of a like nature which, apart from workmanship, has an intrinsic or market value;
"late posted packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 4;
"letter", except where that expression is used in regulation 16, means any postal packet except the following, namely:—a postcard, printed packet, sample packet, registered newspaper, parcel, unaddressed packet or a packet consisting of articles for the use of the blind;
"the minimum registration fee" means the fee referred to as such in the first column of Part I of Schedule 4;
"paper money" means:
(a) bank notes or currency notes, being current in the British postal area or elsewhere;
(b) money orders and postal orders;
(c) unobliterated postage or revenue stamps available for current use in the British postal area or elsewhere (except revenue stamps embossed or impressed on an instrument which has been executed), and National Savings stamps;
(d) exchequer bills, bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, credit notes which entitle the holder to money or goods and all orders and authorities for the payment of money, whether negotiable or not;
(e) bonds and coupons relating thereto and other securities for money, whether negotiable or not;
"parcel" means a postal packet which is posted as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of these regulations;
"postage forward parcel" means a parcel on which postage has not been prepaid, and which:
(a) is addressed to, or to the agent of, a person who has made provision to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General for the payment of postage on postage forward parcels which are posted without prepayment of postage and are received by him or such agent; and
(b) is distinguished or marked in such manner as the Postmaster General may direct;
"postal form" means a form issued by or under the authority of the Postmaster General;
"postal packet" means and includes a letter, postcard, printed packet, sample packet, registered newspaper, parcel, unaddressed packet and a packet consisting of articles for the use of the blind, but does not include a telegram;
"postcard" means a card of the authorised dimensions bearing either an impressed or an adhesive stamp denoting payment of postage, and, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reply postcard;
"prescribed" means prescribed by the Postmaster General;
"printed packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 16;
"railex service" means a service whereby a letter is conveyed by a special messenger from the express delivery office to the appropriate railway station, despatched from that station by the next available and suitable train and delivered to the addressee from the railway station to which it was despatched;
"recorded delivery packet" means an unregistered postal packet which is sent by the recorded delivery service;
"redirection" as applied to a postal packet includes re-posting;
"reply postcard" means a postcard in two parts, connected together, and of such a character that the person receiving the same through the post may, without further payment, again transmit one part of such card through the post;
"sample packet" means a postal packet containing a specimen (without saleable value) of goods for sale in respect of which no payment (apart from the cost of postage and packing) has been or is intended to be made by the addressee and sent by or on behalf of a dealer in such goods, and a postal packet containing such specimen which is being returned to the original sender;
"trade charge" has the meaning assigned to it in the foregoing definition of "cash on delivery packet";
"trade charge form" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 44;
"trade charge money order" means a money order in a special form for remitting the trade charge to the sender of...
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