| 词条 | Post Office Act 1908 |
| 释义 |
|short_title=Post Office Act, 1980 |parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom |long_title=An Act to consolidate Enactments relating to the Post Office. |statute_book_chapter=1908 c.48 |introduced_by= |territorial_extent=United Kingdom |royal_assent=25 July 1908 |commencement=1 May 1909 |repeal_date= |amendments= |related_legislation= |repealing_legislation= |status=Amended |original_text=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1908/48/enacted |legislation_history= }} The Post Office Act 1908 (c.48) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom This was an extensive act covering many aspect of the mail system and some of the main provisions were: reaffirmation of the General Post Office monopoly for the carrying of mail and it gave the power to fix the postage rates to The Treasury with a minimum rate of at least one penny for an inland letter, a half-penny for a postcard, a book packet should not cost more than one halfpenny for every two ounces in weight in addition to other rates. Special rate were to be implemented for postal packets of books and papers impressed for blind people. Unpaid of deficient postage was to be charged at double the deficiency by the addressee and when rejected by the addressee, was to be returned to the sender who should pay the deficiency.[1] The Treasury was allowed to make regulation concerning mail with foreign countries. Petitions and addresses to His Majesty or to Parliament, and on votes and parliamentary proceedings were allowed to be sent free though members of parliament could not received items weighing more than thirty-two ounces postage free.[1] Postal censorship was permitted under provisions of the act when warrants are issued by a secretary of state in both Great Britain and in the Channel Islands.[1]Some of the lesser provisions were:
IrelandThe act remained as the main legislation governing the postal services under the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in Ireland after the establishment of the independent state in 1922. The Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951 repealed and amended several sections of the original act[2] and was presented by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Erskine Childers in Dáil Éireann.[3] Repealed actsThe following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:[4]
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers |work= |publisher=The National Archives |date= |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5759 |accessdate=3 September 2016 }} 2. ^{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951 |work=Number 17 of 1951 |publisher=Attorney General |date=17 July 1951 |url=http://www.acts.ie/print/en.act.1951.0017.1.html |accessdate=3 September 2016 }} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951—Second Stage |work=Parliamentary Debates Vol. 126 No. 4 |publisher=Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas |date=27 June 1951 |url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/Debates%20Authoring/DebatesWebPack.nsf/takes/dail1951062700053?opendocument&highlight=Post%20Office%20%28Amendment%29%20Bill |accessdate=30 August 2016 }} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Post Office Act 1908 |publisher=British Government |date=21 December 1908 |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1908/48/enacted |accessdate=3 September 2016 }} 2 : United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1908|General Post Office |
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