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THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.

small sums through the Post Office, authorise his officers or any of them Regula- to issue orders (hereinafter referred to as "postal orders") in the form tions, set forth in the schedule to that Act, subject, nevertheless, to the pro- 1884.

visoes contained in the said Act:

AND WHEREAS by the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 and 1880, the Postmaster-General is authorised with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to make Post Office Regula- tions 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 :

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Edward VII e. 12.]

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 sanctioned, and the Post- master-General is empowered, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to prescribe by Post Office Regulations further modifications of the form of postal orders, and the several amounts (not exceeding 20 shillings*) of such orders, and the sums *[now 21 of poundage (not exceeding 2 pence) to be taken in respect of such shillings-3 orders, and it was amongst other things provided that where an ar- rangement is made with the Government of any British possession for the transmission of small sums through the Post Offices of the United Kingdom and such British possession by means of money orders of a like character to those issued under the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, as amended by that Act, the said Act as amended by that Act should, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, and subject to the prescribed modifications, apply in like manner as if an order 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 Hongkong for the issue at Hongkong, or at any port or place at which the Post Office of Hongkong maintains a Post Office, and for the payment in the United Kingdom* and Constantinople of postal orders *[ rep, as to in the form and subject to the Regulations hereinafter mentioned;

Gibraltar- Regulations,

Now, THEREFORE, I, the Right Honourable Henry Fawcett, Her 17th Dec., Majesty's Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the said Acts, and of all 1885.] other powers enabling me in this behalf, with the consent of the Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do hereby order as follows :-

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st October, 1884.

2. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, postal orders issued at any Post Office in Hongkong, or any port or place at which the Hongkong Post Office maintains a Post Office, may be paid in the United Kingdom, and Constantinople, by any officer or person for the time being there authorised to pay postal orders issued in the United Kingdom.

3. Every postal order issued in Hongkong, or any port or place at which the Hongkong Post Office maintains a Post Office as aforesaid,