British Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Post Warrant, 1958
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1958 No. 829
POST OFFICE
The British Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Post Warrant, 195814thMay 1958
22ndMay 1958
1stJune 1958
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
Interpretation and Application
1. Interpretation.
2. Application.
PART II
Rates of Postage and General Conditions
3. Rates of postage.
4. Prohibitions.
5. Packing.
6. Limits of weight and size.
7. Fees for customs clearance.
8. Posting.
9. Payment of postage and fees.
10. Treatment of irregular parcels.
11. Delivery.
12. Undeliverable parcels.
13. Air parcels.
PART III
Postal facilities
14. General.
15. Express delivery.
16. Cash on delivery parcels.
17. Delivery free of charges.
18. Insured parcels.
19. Compensation.
20. Redirection by the public.
21. Advice of delivery and enquiries.
22. Parcels in bond.
PART IV
General
23. Parcels posted on ships of the Royal Navy or by Forces abroad.
24. Remission of postage and fees.
25. Application of Inland Post Warrant.
26. Saving.
27. Revocation.
28. Citation and commencement.
We, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by virtue of the powers given to us by sections 5, 8, 10, 11, 15 and 81 of the Post Office Act, 1953(a) 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;
"air parcel" means an outgoing parcel conveyed or intended to be conveyed at the request of the sender through any part of its course in the post by an air mail service;
"bullion" means uncoined and unmanufactured metal;
"cash on delivery parcel" means a parcel upon which, in accordance with a postal arrangement, the Postmaster-General or the Postal Administration of a country or place outside the British postal area undertakes at the request of the sender to 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 cash on delivery service;
"coin" means coin whether or not current in the British postal area or elsewhere, except such as is used or designed for purposes of ornament;
"customs duty" includes purchase tax;
"incoming" means received at a post office in the British postal area through the post;
(a) 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 36.
"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;
"letter" includes any communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence;
"member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom or of any other Commonwealth country" and "member of the armed forces of any State allied with the United Kingdom" include a member of any auxiliary service of such respective forces, and a person attached to such respective forces (although not a member thereof) who is permitted to use a forces address;
"outgoing" means posted in the British postal area;
"parcel" means a postal packet which is posted as a parcel in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant or any Warrant amending or replacing the same, or is received at a post office in the British postal area from abroad by parcel post;
"postal arrangement" means an arrangement made by Her Majesty or by the Postmaster-General with respect to the conveyance by post of parcels between the British postal area and places outside that area, or between places outside that area, whether through that area or not;
"postal form" means a form issued by or under the authority of the Postmaster-General;
"prescribed" means prescribed by the Postmaster-General;
"trade charge" has the meaning assigned to it in the foregoing definition of "cash on delivery parcel".
(2) Any reference in this Warrant to the provisions of any enactment warrant 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 warrant or regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), applies to the interpretation of this Warrant as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Application
2. The provisions of this Warrant shall, except as provided in regulation twenty-three or as otherwise expressed, apply exclusively to:—
(a) parcels transmitted by post in either direction between the British postal area and a country or place (other than the Republic of Ireland) outside the British postal area, being parcels in respect of which a postal arrangement has been made; and
(b) parcels transmitted by post from the British postal area to a British Forces' Post Office outside the British postal area, or to a ship of the Royal Navy outside the territorial waters of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, whether or not such parcels are addressed "c/o G.P.O. London".
(a) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
PART II
RATES OF POSTAGE AND GENERAL CONDITIONS
Rates of postage
3.—(1) There shall be charged and paid on outgoing parcels (except air parcels) such rates of postage as the Postmaster-General may fix not exceeding sixty shillings per parcel up to a maximum weight of twenty-two pounds.
(2) There shall be charged and paid on outgoing air parcels such rates of postage as the Postmaster-General may fix not exceeding forty shillings per pound or twenty shillings per half pound or fractional part of a pound or half pound (as the case may be) up to a maximum weight of twenty-two pounds.
(3) The Postmaster-General shall publish from time to time in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes or in such other manner as he may determine the several rates of postage payable under this Warrant, and in any proceeding relating to the postage payable in respect of parcels transmitted under this Warrant, the production of a copy of the Gazette stating the rate in question shall be conclusive evidence that such rate is the postage for the time being payable as aforesaid.
(4) The rates of postage in respect of outgoing parcels to which this Warrant applies which have been fixed and published under regulation four of the British Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Post Warrant, 1950(a) shall continue in force until superseded by rates fixed under this regulation, and shall take effect as if they had been fixed and published under this regulation.
Prohibitions
4.—(1) Save as the Postmaster-General may either generally or in any particular case allow, there shall not be conveyed or delivered by post any parcel whereof the sending is prohibited by subsection (1) of section eleven of the Act.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Warrant, there shall not be posted or conveyed or delivered by post any parcel:—
(a) containing:
(i) opium, morphine, cocaine, or other narcotic:
Provided that such narcotics may be sent for medical or scientific purposes to countries which admit them when sent for those purposes by parcel post;
(ii) any living creatures, other than bees, leeches and silkworms;
(iii) anything which by the law of the country or place in which the parcel is posted or to which it is addressed or of any country or place through which it may pass, it is unlawful respectively to send, import or convey by parcel post;
(iv) save as the Postmaster-General may either generally or in any particular case allow, coin or gold bullion exceeding £5 in value, or silver bullion or silver partly manufactured exceeding £50 in value;
(v) any imitation of a bank note within the meaning of section thirty-eight of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925(b);
(a) S.I. 1950/1200 (1950 II, p. 367).
(b) 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 86.
(b) containing or bearing any fictitious stamp (not being a fictitious stamp which is authorised to be made by or under Post Office regulations) or any counterfeit impression of a stamping machine used under the direction or by the permission of the Postmaster-General, or any counterfeit of any other impression authorised by or under this Warrant to be used for the prepayment of postage or fees;
(c) containing or having thereon any letter, except so far as may be permitted by the relative postal arrangement;
(d) having thereon, or on the cover thereof, any words, letters or marks (used without due authority) which signify or imply, or may reasonably lead the recipient thereof to believe, that the parcel is sent on Her Majesty's service;
(e) of such a form or colour or so made up for transmission by post as to be likely in the opinion of the Postmaster-General to embarrass the officers of the Post Office in dealing with the parcel;
(f) having anything written, printed or otherwise impressed upon or attached to any part of the parcel which, either by tending to prevent the easy and quick reading of the address of the parcel or by inconvenient proximity to the stamp or stamps used in the payment of postage or fees, or in any other way, is in itself, or in the manner in which it is written, printed, impressed or attached, likely in the opinion of the Postmaster-General to embarrass the officers of the Post Office in dealing with the parcel;
(g) purporting to be prepaid with any stamp or impression of a stamping machine, or with any other impression authorised by or under this...
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