제16163호                          관                 보                    2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

 care of by the issuing postal administration          system, the liaison account may be
 by debiting its liaison account.                      opened        with        another     postal
2 Transfers of junds made free of charge shall         administration.
 give rise to no remuneration.                        2.3 Postal administrations may agree to
3 When the postal administrations concerned            settle their financial exchanges though
 agree, transfers of a야 funds exempted from            designated administrations by multilateral
 charges by the issuing postal administration          agreement.
 may be exempted from remuneration.                   2.4 If the liaison account is overdrawn,
Article 17                                             interest, the rate of which is set in the
Obligations of the paying postal                       Regulations, shall be payable on the
administration                                         amounts owing.
1 The paying postal administration shall meet         2.5 Interest yield on the outstanding
 the service standards stipulated in the               balance of the liaison account shall be
 Regulations I order to provide satisfactory           permitted.
 services to the customers.                       3 Monthly accounts
 Chapter Ⅳ                                            3.1 In the absence of a liaison account,
 Liaison accounts, monthly accounts,                   each paying postal administration shall
 inquiries, liability                                  prepare      for   each     issuing   postal
Article 18                                             administration a monthly account showing
Financial relations between participating              the sums paid for money orders. The
postal administrations.                                monthly accounts shall be incorporated,
1 Postal administrations shall agree with one          periodically, in a general offset account
 another on the technical methods to be used           giving rise to the determination of a
 for settling their debts.                             balance.
2 Liaison accounts                                    3.2 The settlement of accounts may also be
 2.1 As a general rule, where postal                   made on the basis of monthly accounts,
   administrations have a giro institution,            without offsetting.
   each shall cause to be opened in its name      4 No unilateral measure, such as a
   with the corresponding administration a            moratorium, prohibition of transfer, etc.,
   liaison account, by means of which shall           may impinge upon the provisions of this
   be settled mutual debts and claims                 article and those of the Regulations
   resulting from exchanges made through              stemming therefrom.
   the transfer and money order services and      Article 19
   any other operations that the postal           Inquiries
   administrations may agree to settle by         1 Inquiries shall be entertained within a
   this means.                                        period of six months from the day after that
 2.2 Where the postal administration of the           on which the postal money order was posted
   destination country does not have a giro           or the transfer was executed.

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