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Post Office (Amendment) Act 1952

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Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1952

(15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 36

An Act to increase to threepence the maximum poundage payable in respect of postal orders for amounts not exceeding twenty-one shillings.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Increase to threepence of maximum poundage on certain postal orders.

1 Increase to threepence of maximum poundage on certain postal orders.

1. The limit specified, in the proviso to subsection (2) of section one of the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1935, on the poundage payable in respect of postal orders for an amount not exceeding twenty-one shillings shall be increased by one penny; and accordingly in the said proviso for the word ‘twopence’ there shall be substituted the word ‘threepence’.

S-2 Short title, citation and extent.

2 Short title, citation and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1952 , and the Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1940 and this Act may be cited together as the Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1952.

(2) It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.

(3) This Act shall extend to the Channel Islands, and the Royal Courts of the Channel Islands shall register this Act accordingly.

(4) This Act shall extend to the Isle of Man.

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