Inland Post Warrant, 1961
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1961/141 |
| Year | 1961 |
1961 No. 141
POST OFFICE
The Inland Post Warrant, 196124thJanuary 1961
30thJanuary 1961
1stFebruary 1961
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I.—Interpretation and application … … … Regulations 1 and 2
PART II.—Postage … … … … … … … … Regulations 3 to 5
PART III.—General conditions … … … … … … Regulations 6 to 14
PART IV.—Conditions relating to particular classes
of packets … … … … … … … Regulations 15 to 24
PART V.—Postal Facilities … … … … … … Regulations 25 to 30
PART VI.—Registration and compensation … … … Regulations 31 to 37
PART VII.—Recorded Delivery … … … … … … Regulations 38 to 41
PART VIII.—Cash on delivery … … … … … … Regulations 42 to 48
PART IX.—General … … … … … … … … Regulations 49 to 54
FIRST SCHEDULE: Rates of Postage.
SECOND SCHEDULE: Postal Facilities.
THIRD SCHEDULE: Express Delivery Services.
FOURTH SCHEDULE: Registered Postal Packets.
FIFTH SCHEDULE: Cash on Delivery Packets.
SIXTH SCHEDULE: Rates of Postage chargeable on postal packets to be transmitted to the Republic of Ireland.
SEVENTH SCHEDULE: Warrants revoked.
We, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by virtue of the powers conferred upon us by sections 5, 7, 8, 10, 15 and 81 of the Post Office Act, 1953(a), section 9 of the Crown Proceedings Act, 1947(b), 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:—
PART I—INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION
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;
(a) 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 36.
"articles for the use of the blind" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation twenty-three;
"business reply letter" 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;
"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 this Warrant 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 marketable value;
"late posted packet" has the meaning assigned to it by regulation four;
"letter", except where that expression is used in regulation sixteen, means any postal packet except the following, namely:— a postcard, printed packet, sample packet, registered newspaper, parcel, 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 the Fourth Schedule hereto;
"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, bank post 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 this Warrant;
"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, 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 sixteen;
"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 forty-two;
"trade charge money order" means a money order in a special form for remitting the trade charge to the sender of a cash on delivery packet or to a person named by him to receive the amount.
(2) Any reference in this Warrant 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) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), applies for the interpretation of this Warrant as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Warrant and the warrants hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
Application
2. This Warrant shall apply exclusively to inland postal packets, except as provided in regulation fifty-two and except in so far as the provisions of this Warrant are expressly made applicable to any other postal packets by any Warrant relating to such postal packets.
PART II—POSTAGE
Rates of postage
3. There shall be charged and paid upon the postal packets specified in the first column of the First Schedule hereto the rates of postage respectively specified in the second column thereof.
Additional postage on late posted packets
4.—(1) In this regulation the expression "late posted packet" means a postal packet of such description as may be prescribed
(a) which is posted in any special posting box which may be provided by the Postmaster-General for the purpose, after the ordinary hour of collection for a particular despatch from the office of collection on a particular day in order that it may if possible be forwarded by that despatch,
or (b) which is posted at any time in any posting box which may be provided by the Postmaster-General on a train,
or (c) which is posted at any time in any posting box which may be provided by the Postmaster-General for the purpose at a railway station, in order that it may if possible be conveyed by a particular...
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