Inland Post Warrant, 1939.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: —(1) This Warrant may be cited as the Inland Post Warrant, 1939.
(2) This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1939.
2 Application of the 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—
" The Minister."
(1) The expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
" Ireland."
(2) The expression " Ireland " shall be construed as not including any area which is, for the time being, not within the area and extent of application of the laws enacted by the Oireachtas.
" Letter."
(3) The expression " Letter " means any postal packet which is not a postcard, printed packet, sample packet, newspaper, parcel, or literature for the blind.
" Postcard."
(4) The expression " Postcard " means a card of the authorised dimensions bearing either an impressed or an adhesive stamp denoting a rate of postage, and, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reply postcard.
" Reply Postcard."
(5) The expression " Reply Postcard " means a postcard in two parts, connected together, and of such a character thatthe person receiving the same through the post may, without further payment, again transmit one part of such card through the post.
" Printed Packet."
(6) The expression " Printed Packet " means a packet which consists of or contains one or more of the following articles or documents :—
(a) Books and other publications or works of a literary character, whether containing written dedications or not, and any other written or printed matter not being in the nature of a letter (on paper or on some substance ordinarily used for writing or printing).
(b) Sketches, drawings, paintings, photographic prints, and engravings on paper or on some substance ordinarily used for the purpose, provided it is not a brittle or exceptionally fragile substance.
(c) Maps, plans and charts, on paper or some other substance ordinarily used for the purpose, provided it is not a brittle or exceptionally fragile substance.
(d) The binding or mounting of any article hereinbefore described, provided such binding or mounting be of a kind ordinarily used for the purpose, be not made of glass, or any brittle or exceptionally fragile substance, and be transmitted in the same packet with the article in respect of which it is used.
(e) The following documents, whether containing matter in the nature of a letter or not, provided they respectively conform to the following conditions :—
Description of Document.
Conditions.
Commercial or business papers of a formal character, namely, invoices, orders for goods or for work to be done, confirmations of orders, advice notes of the despatch or receipt of letters, documents, goods, or money (with or without instructions for their further treatment), waybills, bills of lading, receipts for goods or money, statements of account, price lists, prices current, market reports, delivery and shipping notes, tenders for goods or for advertisements, quotations for goods, inquiries for quotations, contract notes, confirmations of contracts, share transfer notices, applications for employment, and such other similar documents as the Minister may from time to time prescribe.
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That the document consist of a form bearing printed matter clearly indicating the purpose for which the form is intended to be used and that any writing refer solely to the subject-matter, or consist of a formula of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or initials.
Description of Document.
Conditions.
Notices of assessments and applications for payment of rates issued by persons employed in the collection of rates.
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That the document consist of a form bearing printed matter clearly indicating the purpose for which the form is intended to be used and that any writing refer solely to the subject-matter, or consist of a formula of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or initials.
Notices relating to the registration of voters at elections of the Oireachtas and local government elections.
Notices, certificates, reports, and returns given or made to or by public officers and local authorities or other public bodies in the discharge of their public duties.
Lists and tabular statements.
Deeds, agreements, affidavits, Orders of Court, Briefs from Solicitor to Counsel, proposals and policies of Insurance, and formal papers necessarily incident to insurance, powers of attorney, proxy papers, licences, voting papers, testimonials and certificates. Copies of any of the foregoing documents.
That nothing appear in the document in writing which does not form a necessary part thereof.
Circulars (that is, printed notices and letters.)
That nothing appear in writing on the document except:—
(1) Dates, hours, and particulars of times.
(2) The names, addresses, and descriptions of parties.
(3) The particulars of goods and of sums of money.
(4) The mode of consignment or delivery of goods or money.
(5) The terms on which business is transacted.
(6) Index or reference numbers and letters.
(7) Corrections of errors in print.
(8) The place, character and objects of meetings or appointments.
(9) A formula of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or initials.
Printed Christmas, New Year, Easter, Birthday Greeting, Picture Cards, and Visiting Cards.
That nothing appear in writing in the document except :—
(1) Date of sending and names and addresses of sender and addressee.
(2) A formula of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or initials.
Manuscript for press and printed proofs (including information for insertion in directories and similar publications) with corrections and instructions.
That any writing not forming part of the document itself refer solely to the arrangement or correction of the type or to the execution of the work.
Description of Document.
Conditions.
Educational exercises and examination papers with comments, corrections, and instructions.
That any writing not forming part of the document itself refer solely to the subject-matter of the exercise or to the questions put or the answers thereto.
(f) Anything necessary or convenient for the safe transmission of any of the before-mentioned articles by post when transmitted in the same packet with the article in respect of which it is so used.
Any two or more documents coming within the definition of a printed packet may appear on the same sheet of paper, provided they are kept wholly distinct from one another.
On any printed packet or on its cover it is allowed to indicate, by hand or by a mechanical process, the name, description and address of the sender or of the addressee, and the date of despatch, the sender's signature, telephone number and telegraphic address and code.
In this definition expressions referring to print or printing shall be taken to refer to any species of type-printing easy to recognise, and to include lithography, hand stamping, or any mechanical process ordinarily used to produce a number of identical copies of written matter, and easy to recognise, but except in relation to circulars shall not be taken to include type-printing after the fashion or in imitation of type-writing, or the reproduction of type-writing by the Mimeograph or any other mechanical process ordinarily used to produce a number of identical copies of written matter. Any formula of courtesy or of a conventional character which may be written on any particular document may be written on the envelope, or on a fly leaf, or on a loose sheet accompanying the document, instead of on the document itself.
Expressions referring to writing shall be taken to include type-writing or any mechanical or other process ordinarily used to produce a single document.
" Newspaper."
(7) The expression " Newspaper " means—
(a) a newspaper and any supplement thereto as respectively defined by the Post Office Act, 1908, and any subsequent Act ;
(b) a publication which is within the definition aforesaid in all respects save as regards the proportion of advertisements to other matter and which was stamped as a newspaper before the 15th day of June, 1855.
" Sample Packet."
(8) The expression " Sample Packet " means a packet containing a specimen (without saleable value) of goods for sale :—
(a) either with or without any article or document transmissible as a printed packet, and
(b) either with or without a cover or label for the return of the sample to the dealer by whom the sample was originally posted.
" Literature for the Blind."
(9) The expression " Literature for the Blind " means books and papers impressed in " Braille," or other special type, for the use of the blind.
" Parcel."
(10) The expression " Parcel " means a postal packet which is posted as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant or any Warrant amending the same.
" Postal Packet."
(11) The expression " Postal Packet " means any letter, postcard, printed packet, sample packet, newspaper, parcel, and literature for the blind.
" Express Packet."
(12) The expression " 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.
" Express Delivery Office."
(13) The expression " Express Delivery Office " means any post office from time to time authorised by the Minister for the reception of postal packets for conveyance and delivery by special messenger.
" Late Fee Postal Packet."
(14) The expression " Late Fee Postal Packet " means a postal packet posted after the ordinary hours of collection for particular despatches by being handed in at such post offices or otherwise posted in such manner as may be prescribed.
" Inland Cash-on-Delivery Parcel."
(15) The expression " Inland Cash-on-Delivery Parcel " means a parcel upon which the Minister 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 parcel as a condition of delivery and upon which the sender has paid the fee for the Inland Cash-on-Delivery Service.
" Inland."
(16) The expression " Inland " when used in relation to any postal packet or any description thereof, means posted within Ireland and addressed to some place in Ireland.
"Re-direction"
(17) The expression " Re-direction " as applied to a postal packet includes re-posting.
" Jewellery."
(18) The expression " Jewellery " means :—
(a) gold, silver, or platinum or other precious metal in amanufactured 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 the 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.
" Paper Money."
(19) The expression " Paper Money " means—
(a) legal tender notes ; notes of any bank of issue, or notes which are current, in Ireland or any other country or state ;
(b) Money Orders and Postal Orders ;
(c) unobliterated postage or revenue stamps, whether embossed or adhesive ;
(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, coupons, and securities for money, whether negotiable or not.
" Fictitious Postage Stamp."
(20) The expression " Fictitious Postage Stamp " means any facsimile or imitation or representation of any stamp for denoting any rate or duty of postage whether of Ireland or of any other country or state.
" Postal Form."
(21) The expression " Postal Form " means a form issued by or under the authority of the Minister.
" Prescribed."
(22) The expression " Prescribed " means prescribed by the Minister.
4 Application of 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 inland postal packets and to postal packets transmitted between Ireland and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, so far as relates to the posting, conveyance, delivery and treatment thereof under the authority of the Minister.
RATES AND CONDITIONS OF POSTAGE AND CERTAIN SERVICES.
5 Rates and conditions of postage
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paragraphs: —(1) 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 ; thelimits of size and weight of such postal packets shall not (except with the special permission of the Minister) exceed those respectively specified in the third and fourth columns of the said Schedule ; and the transmission thereof by post shall be subject to the conditions set out in the fifth column of the said Schedule and to the further conditions and provisions contained in the body of this Warrant.