THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
2. The schedule to these Regulations shall be deemed part of these Regulations.
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3. An officer in charge of a money order office in the United Kingdom, and any such other officer of the Post Office, and any such other person holding office under the Crown as may from time to time be authorised in this behalf by the Postmaster-General (which officers are referred to as postmasters in these Regulations) may issue and pay postal orders in the form set forth in the schedule hereto.
A postmaster may, subject to any restrictions or directions from time to time given by the Postmaster-General, do by deputy anything under these Regulations.
4. Postal orders shall be issued for the sum of sixpence and for such multiples of sixpence up to and including the sum of twenty shillings as the Postmaster-General may from time to time direct.
*Regs: [and for twenty-one shillings*] as the Postmaster-General may from time to time direct. (Sept., 1903.)
5. The poundage payable for postal orders shall be as follows:-
For 6d. and every multiple of 6d. up to and including 1s. 6d. - ½d.
For every multiple of 6d. between 2s. and 10s. 6d., both inclusive - 1d.
For every multiple of 6d. between 11s. and 20s., both inclusive, [and for 21s.*] - 1½d.
6. Every postal order shall be issued with a counterfoil, but the counterfoil shall be detached by the person to whom the order is issued, and the term "postal order" as used in these Regulations (except where the context otherwise requires) shall not include the counterfoil.
7. Before a postmaster issues a postal order, the amount of the order and the poundage thereon shall be paid to him: and he shall sign the order and stamp it with the proper stamp, specifying the date on which the order is issued.
8. Postal orders shall be printed on such paper and in such characters and with such distinctive marks, whether on the face or back of the postal order or in the paper or otherwise, and the amount of the poundage shall be denominated by means of such stamp or mark, as the Postmaster-General, with the concurrence of the Treasury, from time to time directs.
9.-(a) The blanks in a postal order for the name of the payee and for the name of the money order office at which it is to be paid may be filled in before or after issue.
(b) If the blanks are not filled in before issue, the person to whom the order is issued must, before parting with it, fill in the name of the payee.