S.I. No. 251/1990:

DÁIL ELECTIONS FREE POSTAGE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1990.

DÁIL ELECTIONS FREE POSTAGE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1990.

An Post, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 50 of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), and by Section 74 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), having consulted the Minister for the Environment and with the consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme:

1. (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Dáil Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1990.

(2) The Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1961 ), The Dáil Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984 ( S.I. No. 291 of 1984 ), and this Scheme may be cited as the Dáil Elections Free Postage Schemes, 1961 to 1990.

2. This Scheme shall be construed as one with the Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961, and the Dáil Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984.

3. In this Scheme "the Regulations" mean the Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961.

4. Paragraph (b) of Regulation 8 of the Regulations is hereby amended by placing a full stop after the words "of the cover" and deleting the remainder of that paragraph.

5. Regulation 8 of the Regulations is hereby amended by the replacement of the full stop at the end of paragraph (j) with a comma and by the addition of the following paragraph after paragraph (j):

"(k) subject to the conditions contained in this Regulation, communications shall comply with the statutes and the schemes and regulations affecting postal packets generally."

6. Paragraph (a) of Regulation 9 of the Regulations is hereby amended by the deletion of "£50" in the first line and the substitution of "£100".

7. The Regulations are hereby amended by the deletion of the Second Schedule thereto and by the substitution of the following regulation for Regulation 12:

"12. Communications which cannot be delivered for want of a sufficient address or for any other good reason may be treated by An Post in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 28 of the Inland Post Warrant, 1939 (No. 202 of 1939)."

8. Regulation 15 is hereby amended by the deletion of "£50" in the last line and the substitution of "£100".

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 9th day of October, 1990.

PRESENT when the Common Seal of AN POST was affixed hereto:

B. Walsh,

Director.

J. Treacy,

Secretary.

I, Raphael P. Burke, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme.

RAPHAEL P. BURKE,

Given under my official Seal this 12th day of October, 1990.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This schemes removes restrictions on the matter which may be included on the address side of election communications which may be sent, free of postage, by candidates in a Dáil Election. The Scheme also increases the amount of the deposit required from candidates who wish to post such communications before they are duly entitled to do so and amends the regulations relating to the treatment of undelivered election communications.