Postal Services (Jersey) Order 1969

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1969/1366
Year1969

1969 No. 1366

POST OFFICE

The Postal Services (Jersey) Order 1969

24thSeptember 1969

1stOctober 1969

At the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of September 1969

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas section 2(6) of the Post Office Act 1969(a) provides that anything done before the appointed day for the purposes of that Act by the Postmaster General in exercise of any power conferred on the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications by, or by virtue of, the following provisions of that Act shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as if it had been done by the last-named Minister:

And whereas by the Post Office Act 1969 (Appointed Day) Order 1969(b) the appointed day for the purposes of that Act is 1st October 1969:

And whereas an agreement has been concluded between the Postmaster General and the States of Jersey providing for the surrender by the Post Office, as regards the Bailiwick of Jersey, of the privilege conferred on the Post Office by section 3 of the Post Office Act 1953(c) and the administration in that Bailiwick of postal services by, or under the authority of, the States instead of by the Post Office :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 87(1) of the Post Office Act 1969, as read with section 88(5) thereof, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Postal Services (Jersey) Order 1969 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1969.

2. This Order applies only to the Bailiwick of Jersey.

3. The Interpretation Act 1889(d) shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and section 38 of that Act (effect of repeals) shall apply as if this Order were an Act of Parliament.

4. The agreement mentioned in the preamble to this Order and set out in Schedule 1 thereto shall have the force of law.

5. Sections 12, 13, 20, 23, 30, 64, 73, 79 and 84 of the Post Office Act 1969 are hereby repealed.

(a) 1969 c. 48.

(b) S.I. 1969/1066 (1969 II, p. 3123).

(c) 1953 c. 36.

(d) 1889 c. 63,

6. The provisions of the Post Office Act 1969 specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be amended in the manner specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.

7. The provisions of the Post Office Act 1953, except section 65A, as inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Theft Act 1968(a) (fraudulent use of public telephone or telex system), and those specified in Schedule 3 to this Order, are hereby repealed and the provisions so specified shall be amended in the manner specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.

W. G. Agnew.

Article 4

SCHEDULE 1

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND THE STATES OF JERSEY

This agreement made the fifteenth day of August 1969 between the Right Honourable John...

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