Department of Posts and Telegraphs. Foreign Post (Except Parcels). The Foreign Post Warrant, 1949.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: —(1) This Warrant may be cited as the Foreign Post Warrant, 1949.
(2) This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1949.
2 Application of Interpretation Act, 1937 .
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paragraphs: The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Warrant.
3 Definitions.
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paragraphs: In this Warrant—
Air letter.
(1) The expression " air letter " means a letter intended for transmission by air mail service which is written on a special form approved by the Minister as regards dimensions, form and manner of make-up.
Air Mail packet.
(2) The expression " air mail packet " means a postal packet on which an air fee has been prepaid and which is, at the request of the sender, conveyed or intended to be conveyed through any part of its course by an air mail service.
Air Mail service.
(3) The expression " air mail service " means a service for the conveyance of mails by air.
Commercial packet.
(4) The expression " commercial packet " means a packet of papers or documents wholly or partly written or drawn, not having the character of a current and personal correspondence, such as open letters and postcards which are out-of-date and have already fulfilled their original purpose, or copies thereof, papers of legal procedure, documents of all kinds drawn up by public functionaries, way-bills or bills of lading, invoices, certain documents of insurance companies, copies of or extracts from deeds under private seal written on stamped or unstamped paper, musical scores or sheets of music in manuscript, the manuscriptof works or of newspapers forwarded separately, and pupils exercises in original or with corrections but without any note which does not relate directly to the execution of the work, and also all packets containing correspondence exchanged between the pupils of schools even when they have the character of a current and personal correspondence on condition that such packets are forwarded through the intermediary of the authorities of the schools concerned.
Fictitious postage stamp.
(5) The expression " fictitious postage stamp " means any facsimile, imitation, or representation (whether on paper or otherwise) of any stamp for the time being authorised or required to be used for the purpose of the Post Office or of any stamp for denoting a current rate of postage of any country (including the State).
Inland.
(6) The expression " inland," when used in relation to any postal packet or any description thereof, means posted within and addressed to a place in the State or the United Kingdom.
Insured letter and insured box.
(7) The expression " insured letter " and " insured box " shall be deemed respectively to include 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.
(8) The expression " letter " includes any communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence.
Letter packet
(9) The expression " letter packet " means a packet transmitted at the letter rate of postage and containing goods or articles of merchandise, but does not include any packet intended to be delivered in a country which has not given its consent to the admission in such packets of goods or articles liable to customs duty.
Literature for the blind.
(10) The expression " literature for the blind " means—
(i) books and papers impressed with characters in relief for the use of the blind,
(ii) plates for embossing literature for the blind,
(iii) sound records and other articles specially adapted and intended solely for the use of the blind, provided that they are sent by or addressed to an officially recognised institute for the blind.
Magazine for Canada.
(11) The expression " magazine for Canada " means a newspaper, magazine or trade journal registered as provided by this Warrant for transmission to Canada and includes a packet of two or more such magazines.
Minister.
(12) The expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
Postcard.
(13) The expression "postcard" means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Union Convention, and (except where otherwise expressed) includes a " reply postcard."
Postal form.
(14) The expression " postal form " means a form issued by or under the authority of the Minister.
Postal packet.
(15) The expression "postal packet " means (except where otherwise expressed) a letter, air letter, postcard, printed packet, commercial packet, letter packet, sample packet, packet of literature for the blind, or magazine for Canada.
Prescribed.
(16) The expression " prescribed " means prescribed by the Minister.
Printed packet.
(17) The expression " printed packet " means a packet consisting of or containing—
(i) one or more of the following articles or documents, whether printed, engraved, lithographed, or mimeographed, that is to say :—
(a) newspapers and periodicals, books, sewn or bound, and pamphlets,
(b) sheets of music (except perforated sheets intended to be used with automatic musical instruments), visiting cards, address cards, proofs of printing, with or without the relative manuscript,
(c) engravings, photographs, and albums containing photographs,
(d) pictures and drawings, plans, maps, paper patterns and catalogues,
(e) prospectuses, advertisements and notices of various kinds ;
(ii) in general all impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment or cardboard by means of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography or any mechanical process easy to recognise (except the copying-press, a hand stamp with or without moveable type, and the typewriter) ;
(iii) reproductions of a manuscript or typewritten original obtained by a mechanical process provided they are posted in occordance with the regulations governing such packets in the inland service.
Purpose of the Post Office.
(18) The expression " the purpose of the Post Office " has the same meaning as in the Post Office Act, 1908.
Reply postcard.
(19) The expression " reply postcard " means a postcard in two parts, one of which may without further payment be again transmitted through the post.
Sample packet.
(20) The expression " sample packet " means a packet consisting of trade patterns or samples or merchandise. Exceptionally it includes packets containing the following articles, viz., printers' blocks, patterns sent singly, keys sent singly, cut fresh flowers, articles of natural history (such as dried or presrved animals and plants, and geological specimens) and tubes of serum or vaccine and pathological objects rendered harmless by their mode of preparation and packing. Provided that the said articles, except tubes of serum and vaccine sent in the public interest by laboratories or institutions officially recognised, shall not be sent for a commercial purpose.
United Kingdom.
(21) The expression " United Kingdom " means Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
4 Application of this Warrant.
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paragraphs: Except where it is in this Warrant otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this Warrant shall be deemed to apply exclusively to postal packets transmitted by post between a Post Office in the State and any other country (not being the United Kingdom).
RATES OF POSTAGE.
5 Letters
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paragraphs: There shall be charged and paid on every outgoing letter the appropriate rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.
6 Postcards and reply postcards.
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paragraphs: Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid/(a) on every outgoing postcard (other than a reply postcard) the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto ; (b) on every outgoing reply postcard the rate of postage specified in respect thereof in the First Schedule hereto.
7 Printed packets, commercial packets and sample packets.
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paragraphs: Except as otherwise provided in this Warrant, there shall be charged and paid on—