• Source: Post Office Act 1908

      • The Post Office Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. 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 rates were to be implemented for postal packets of books and papers impressed for blind people. Unpaid or 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.
      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 receive items weighing more than thirty-two ounces postage free.
      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.
      Some of the lesser provisions were:

      To provide postal services (including cash on delivery services) and telecommunication services
      To provide a banking service of the kind commonly known as a giro system and such other services by means of which money may be remitted (whether by means of money orders, postal orders or otherwise) as it thinks fit
      To provide data processing services
      To perform services for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Government in Northern Ireland or the government of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or for local or national health service authorities in the United Kingdom.


      Ireland


      The 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 The Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951 repealed and amended several sections of the original act and was presented by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Erskine Childers in Dáil Éireann.


      Repealed acts


      The following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:

      Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 11)
      The Post Office (Repeal of Laws) Act 1837
      The Post Office Management Act 1837
      The Post Office (Offences) Act 1837
      The Post Office (Duties) Act 1840
      The Post Office (Duties) Act 1844
      The Post Office (Duties) Act 1848
      The Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1848
      The Colonial Inland Post Office Act 1849
      The Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act 1854
      The Inland Revenue Act 1855
      The Post Office (Duties) Act 1860
      The Post Office Lands Act 1863
      The Telegraph Act 1869
      The Post Office Act 1870
      The Post Office Act 1875
      The Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879
      The Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1880
      The Post Office (Newspaper) Act 1881
      The Post Office (Land) Act 1881
      The Post Office (Reply Post Cards) Act 1882
      The Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1883
      The Post Office (Protection) Act 1884
      The Telegraph (Isle of Man) Act 1889
      The Post Office Act 1891
      The Post Office Act 1892
      The Post Office Amendment Act 1895
      The Post Office and Telegraph Act 1897
      The Post Office (Guarantee) Act 1898
      The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
      The Post Office Guarantee (No. 2) Act 1898
      The Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1903
      The Post Office Act 1904
      The Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1906
      The Post Office (Literature for the Blind) Act 1906


      References

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