186
Regulations, 1884.
[rep. by Regulations, 9th May, 1892; rep. and replaced by Regulations, 20th June, 1903.]
THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
shall be in the form and of one of the amounts specified in the Regulations made under the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 to 1883, and dated the 28th day of January, 1884,† or any other Regulations for the time being in force with reference to postal orders issued in the United Kingdom, and all the provisions of the said Regulations shall apply to orders issued in Hongkong, or any port or place at which the Hongkong Post Office maintains a Post Office as aforesaid so far as the nature of the case admits.
$[ now 21 shillings: 3 Edw. VII c. 12.]
Definitions.
POSTAL ORDER (INLAND) REGULATIONS, 20th June, 1903, as amended by Regulations (14th September, 1903).
WHEREAS the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, provides that, subject to the Post Office Regulations, the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Treasury, may, for the purpose of the transmission of small sums through the Post Office, authorise his officers, or any of them, to issue 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 authorised, with the consent of the 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:
AND WHEREAS by the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883, certain alterations in the form of the orders issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, are sanctioned, and the Postmaster-General is empowered, with the consent of the Treasury, to prescribe by Post Office Regulations further modifications of the form of such orders, and the several amounts (not exceeding 20 shillings §) of such orders, and the sums of poundage (not exceeding 2 pence) to be taken in respect of such orders, and to authorise, by such Regulations, the issue of such orders by any persons holding office under the Crown:
Now, THEREFORE, I, the Right Honourable Joseph Austen Chamberlain, M.P., His Majesty's Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the said Acts, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, do hereby make the following Regulations (that is to say):
1. In these Regulations:--- The term "postal order" means a money order issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880: The term "the payee" means the person entitled to receive the amount of a postal order: The term "month" means calendar month:
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186
Regula- tions, 1884.
[rep. by
Regulations,
9th May, 1892; rep.
and replaced
by Regula- tions, 20th June, 1903.]
THE POST OFFICE (MONEY ORDERS) ACTS.
shall be in the form and of one of the amounts specified in the Regula- tions made under the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 to 1883, and dated the 28th day of January, 1884,† or any other Regulations for the time being in force with reference to postal orders issued in the United Kingdom, and all the provisions of the said Regulations shall apply to orders issued in Hongkong, or any port or place at which the Hongkong Post Office maintains a Post Office as aforesaid so far as the nature of the case admits.
$[ now 21 shillings:
3 Edw. VII
c. 12.]
Definitions.
POSTAL ORDER (INLAND) REGULATIONS, 20th June, 1903,
as amended by Regulations (14th September, 1903). WHEREAS the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, provides that, subject to the Post Office Regulations, the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Treasury, may, for the purpose of the transmission of small sums through the Post Office, authorise his officers, or any of them, to issue 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 authorised, with the consent of the 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:
AND WHEREAS by the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883, certain alterations in the form of the orders issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, are sanctioned, and the Postmaster- General is empowered, with the consent of the Treasury, to prescribe by Post Office Regulations further modifications of the form of such orders, and the several amounts (not exceeding 20 shillings §) of such orders, and the sums of poundage (not exceeding 2 pence) to be taken in respect of such orders, and to authorise, by such Regulations, the issue of such orders by any persons holding office under the Crown:
Now, THEREFORE, I, the Right Honourable Joseph Austen Chamber- lain, M.P., His Majesty's Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the said Acts, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, with the con- sent of the Treasury, do hereby make the following Regulations (that is to say):
1. In these Regulations:--- The term " postal order
means a money order issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880 : The term "the payee
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means the person entitled to receive the
amount of a postal order :
The term "month" means calendar month:
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