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G.N.A. 69/48.
Post Office.
16. The fee for a certificate of posting shall be 2 cents for each packet posted. It shall be payable in advance by means of a 2 cents postage stamp affixed to the certificate.
17. The fee for the reception of mail matter shall be $2 per year or part of a year. The certificate shall lapse on the 31st December of the year in which it is issued unless renewed.
18. (1) The registration fee shall be 30 cents for each postal packet and the fee for an acknowledgment of the receipt by the addressee of any registered postal packet shall be 30 cents.
(2) The registration fee and the postage on a registered packet shall be prepaid.
19. Unregistered postal packets found to contain bank-notes, used or unused postage stamps, cheques payable to bearer or uncrossed postal orders or postal notes shall be subject to compulsory registration and shall be charged a registration fee of fifty cents for each such packet.
20. (1) For cash on delivery parcels a special fee will be collected for any trade charge at the rate of 10 cents for each $10 or fraction of $10 and, in addition, a posting fee of 20 cents will be levied on each parcel so posted.
(2) The trade charge on any one parcel shall not exceed £40 (or $200 in the case of Macao).
(3) The cash on delivery fee and the postage must be prepaid on every cash on delivery parcel.
(4) In this regulation "trade charge" means the amount to be collected on delivery.
21. (1) Local money orders (limit $400 Hong Kong currency) will be issued payable in Hong Kong and Macao. Commission shall be charged at the rate of 1 cent per dollar or part of a dollar with a minimum charge of 5 cents.
(2) Foreign money orders will be issued at rates of exchange fixed by the Postmaster General from time to time. Commission shall be charged at the rate of 12 cents per dollar or part of a dollar with a minimum charge of 10 cents.
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