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S.I. No. 290/1984 - European Assembly Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984

Type Statutory Instrument
Publication 1984-10-19
Last updated 1993-09-27
State Repealed superseded text
Text As published
Source Irish Statute Book
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This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

1 amending act · 1993-09-27, S.I. No. 312/1993 - European Elections Free Postage Scheme, 1993

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S.I. No. 290 of 1984.

EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FREE POSTAGE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1984.

An Post, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Rule 18 (1) of the First Schedule to the European Assembly Elections Act, 1977 (No. 30 of 1977), and by Section 74 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), having consulted the Minister for the Environment and with the consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme:

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(1) This Scheme may be cited as the European Assembly Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984.

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This Scheme shall be construed as one with the European Assembly Elections Free postage Regulations, 1979.

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The European Assembly Elections Free Postage Regulations 1979 are hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a) of Regulation 8:

  • "(a) communications shall either be enclosed in closed or unclosed covers or be folded or be in such other form (whether or not in covers) consistent with these Regulations as shall, in the opinion of An Post, not be likely to impede sorting or to entrap other postal packets."

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 5th day of October, 1984.

PRESENT when the Common Seal of

An Post was affixedhereto:
Desmond G. Hickey (NAME) Solicitor (DESCRIPTION) An Post, General Post Office, Dublin 1. (Witness) Gerard P. Harvey DIRECTOR Jim Treacy SECRETARY

I, JAMES MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provision of the foregoing Scheme.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 19th day of October, 1984.

JAMES MITCHELL,

Minister for Communications.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of this Scheme is to broaden the criteria of acceptability of the form of communication which may be sent, free of postage, by candidates at a European Assembly Election to every person registered as an elector.

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