S.I. No. 252/1990:

EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FREE POSTAGE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1990.

EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FREE POSTAGE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1990.

An Post, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Rule 18(1) of Part I 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:

1. (1) This Scheme may be cited as the European Assembly Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1990.

(2) The European Assembly Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1979, the European Assembly Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984 (No. 290 of 1984), and this Scheme may be cited as the European Assembly Elections Free Postage Schemes, 1979 to 1990.

2. This Scheme shall be construed as one with the European Assembly Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1979, and the European Assembly Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984.

3. In this Scheme "the Regulations" mean the European Assembly Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1979.

4. The references to the Controller of the Dublin Postal District in Regulation 4 of the Regulations and the First Schedule thereto shall be substituted by "appropriate officer".

5. Paragraph (b) of Regulation 8 of the Regulations is hereby amended by placing a full stop after the words "of the cover" and deleting the remainder of that paragraph.

6. Regulation 8 of the Regulations is hereby amended by the replacement of the full stop at the end of paragraph (j) with a comma and by the addition of the following paragraph after paragraph (j):

"( k ) subject to the conditions contained in this Regulation, communications shall comply with the statutes and the schemes and regulations affecting postal packets generally."

7. Paragraph (a) of Regulation 9 of the Regulations is hereby amended by the deletion of "£50" in the first line and the substitution of "£100".

8. The Regulations are hereby amended by the deletion of the Third Schedule thereto and by the substitution of the following regulation for Regulation 12:

"12. Communications which cannnot be delivered for want of a sufficient address or for any other good reason may be treated by An Post in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 28 of the Inland Post Warrant, 1939 (No. 202 of 1939)."

9. Regulation 15 is hereby amended by the deletion of "£50" in the last line and the substitution of "£100".

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 9th day of October, 1990.

PRESENT when the Common Seal

of AN POST was affixed hereto:

B. WALSH,

Director

J. TREACY,

Secretary

I, RAPHAEL P. BURKE, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.

RAPHAEL P. BURKE

GIVEN under my official Seal this 12th day of October, 1990.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This scheme removes restrictions on the matter which may be included on the address side of election communications which may be sent, free of postage, by candidates in a European Assembly Election. The Scheme also increases the amount of the deposit required from candidates who wish to post such communications before they are duly entitled to do so and amends the regulations relating to the treatment of undelivered election communications.