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POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS, 1848 To 1883. REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE Post Office (Money Orders) Acrs, 1848 to 1883.
(Published in the London Gazette of August 1, 1884.)
WHEREAS the Post Office (Money Orders); issue at Hong Kong, or at any port or place at Act, 1880, provides that subject to the Post which the Post Office of Hong Kong maintains a Office Regulations, the Postmaster-General, with Post Office, and for the payment in the United the consent of the Treasury, may for the purpose Kingdom and in Gibraltar and Constantinople of of the transmission of small gams through the Postal Orders in the form and subject to the Post Office authorize his officers or any of them Regulations hereinafter mentioned. to issue Orders (hereinafter referred to as Postal Orders) in the form set forth in the Schedule to that Act, subject nevertheless to the provisoes contained in the said Act.
And whereas by the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 and 1880, the Postmaster-General is authorized with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to make Post Office Regulations relating to Money Orders and to the persons by or to whom Money Orders shall be paid, and to the times at which and the mode in which the same shall be paid.
Now, therefore, I, the Right Honourable Henry Fawcett, Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the said Acts, and of all other powers Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do enabling me in this behalf, with the consent of the hereby order as follows:----
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1884.
2. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations Postal Orders issued at any l'ost Office in Hong Kong, or any port or place at which the Hong Kong Post Office maintains a Post Office, may be paid in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, and Constantinople by say officer or person for the time being there authorized to pay Postai Orders issued in the United Kingdom.
And whereas by the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883, certain alterations in the form of Postal Orders as set forth in the schedule to the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, are sane- tioned, and the Postmaster-General is empowered,
3. Every Postal Order issued in Hong Kong, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to prescribe by Post Office or any port or place at which the Hong Kong Regulations further modifications of the form of Post Office maintains a Post Office as aforesaid, Postal Orders and the several amounts (not shall be in the form and of one of the amounts exceeding twenty shillings) of such Orders, and specified in the Regulations made under the the sums of ponadage (not exceeding two pence) Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 to 1883, to be taken in respect of such Orders, and it was and dated the 28th day of January, 1884, or any amongst other things provided that where another Regulations for the time being in force arrangement is made with the Government of any with reference to Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom, and all the provisions of the British Possession for the transmission of small sums through the Post Offices of the United said Regulations shall apply to Orders issued in Kingdom, and such British Possession by means of Hong Kong, or any port or place at which the Money Orders of a like character to those issued Hong Kong Post Office maintains a Post Office under the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, as aforesaid so far as the nature of the onse as amended by that Act the said Act as amended admits. by that Act should so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof and subject to the prescribed modi-Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, have hereunto fications, apply in like manner as if an Order set my hand this seventeenth day of July, 1884.
issued in pursuance of such arrangement, whether by an officer of the Post Office or of such British Possession, was an Order under the said Act as amended by that Act and that such portions of the said Act as enact punishment should apply accordingly.
And whereas an arrangement has been made with the Government of Hong Kong for the
In witness whereof I, the said Henry Fawcett,
Henry Fawcett.
We, the undersigned, being two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Trea- sury, do hereby signify the consent of the same Commissioners to the above
Charles C. Cotes. Regulations.
R. W. Duff
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