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The '''Post Office Act 1908''' (c.48) is an [[act of parliament|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 [[HM Treasury|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.<ref name="the act"/>
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 then thirty-two ounces postage free.<ref name="the act"/>
[[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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers |work= |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |date= |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5759 |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref>
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 [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] after the establishment of the independant state in 1922. The [[Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951]] repealed and amended several sections of the original act<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951 |work=Number 17 of 1951 |publisher=[[Attorney General of Ireland|Attorney General]] |date=17 July 1951 |url=http://www.acts.ie/print/en.act.1951.0017.1.html |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref> and was presented by the [[Minister for Posts and Telegraphs]], [[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine Childers]] in [[Dáil Éireann]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951—Second Stage |work=Parlimentary 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 }}</ref>
==Repealed acts==
The following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:<ref name="the act">{{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 }}</ref>
* The Post Office (Revenues) Act, 1710
* 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, 184
*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==
{{reflist}}' |
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+The '''Post Office Act 1908''' (c.48) is an [[act of parliament|act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
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+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 [[HM Treasury|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.<ref name="the act"/>
+
+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 then thirty-two ounces postage free.<ref name="the act"/>
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+[[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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers |work= |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |date= |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5759 |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref>
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+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 [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] after the establishment of the independant state in 1922. The [[Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951]] repealed and amended several sections of the original act<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951 |work=Number 17 of 1951 |publisher=[[Attorney General of Ireland|Attorney General]] |date=17 July 1951 |url=http://www.acts.ie/print/en.act.1951.0017.1.html |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref> and was presented by the [[Minister for Posts and Telegraphs]], [[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine Childers]] in [[Dáil Éireann]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951—Second Stage |work=Parlimentary 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 }}</ref>
+
+==Repealed acts==
+The following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:<ref name="the act">{{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 }}</ref>
+* The Post Office (Revenues) Act, 1710
+* 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, 184
+*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==
+{{reflist}}
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The '''Post Office Act 1908''' (c.48) is an [[act of parliament|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 [[HM Treasury|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.<ref name="the act"/>
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 then thirty-two ounces postage free.<ref name="the act"/>
[[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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers |work= |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |date= |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5759 |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref>
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 [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] after the establishment of the independant state in 1922. The [[Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951]] repealed and amended several sections of the original act<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951 |work=Number 17 of 1951 |publisher=[[Attorney General of Ireland|Attorney General]] |date=17 July 1951 |url=http://www.acts.ie/print/en.act.1951.0017.1.html |accessdate=3 September 2016 }}</ref> and was presented by the [[Minister for Posts and Telegraphs]], [[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine Childers]] in [[Dáil Éireann]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951—Second Stage |work=Parlimentary 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 }}</ref>
==Repealed acts==
The following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:<ref name="the act">{{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 }}</ref>
* The Post Office (Revenues) Act, 1710
* 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, 184
*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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<p>The <b>Post Office Act 1908</b> (c.48) is an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of parliament">act</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></p>
<p>This was an extensive act covering many aspect of the <a href="/wiki/Mail" title="Mail">mail</a> system and some of the main provisions were: reaffirmation of the <a href="/wiki/General_Post_Office" title="General Post Office">General Post Office</a> monopoly for the carrying of mail and it gave the power to fix the postage rates to <a href="/wiki/HM_Treasury" title="HM Treasury">The Treasury</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-the_act_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the_act-1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<p>The Treasury was allowed to make regulation concerning mail with foreign countries.</p>
<p>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 then thirty-two ounces postage free.<sup id="cite_ref-the_act_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the_act-1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<p><a href="/wiki/Postal_censorship" title="Postal censorship">Postal censorship</a> was permitted under provisions of the act when warrants are issued by a secretary of state in both Great Britain and in the <a href="/wiki/Channel_Islands" title="Channel Islands">Channel Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
<p>Some of the lesser provisions were:</p>
<ul>
<li>To provide postal services (including cash on delivery services) and telecommunication services</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>To provide data processing services</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Ireland">Ireland</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Post_Office_Act_1908&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ireland">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>The act remained as the main legislation governing the postal services under the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegraphs" title="Minister for Posts and Telegraphs">Minister for Posts and Telegraphs</a> in <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a> after the establishment of the independant state in 1922. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Post_Office_(Amendment)_Bill,_1951&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951 (page does not exist)">Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951</a> repealed and amended several sections of the original act<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and was presented by the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegraphs" title="Minister for Posts and Telegraphs">Minister for Posts and Telegraphs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erskine_Hamilton_Childers" title="Erskine Hamilton Childers">Erskine Childers</a> in <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann" title="Dáil Éireann">Dáil Éireann</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Repealed_acts">Repealed acts</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Post_Office_Act_1908&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Repealed acts">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>The following acts were repealed mostly in whole and some in part:<sup id="cite_ref-the_act_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the_act-1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<ul>
<li>The Post Office (Revenues) Act, 1710</li>
<li>The Post Office (Repeal of Laws) Act, 1837</li>
<li>The Post Office Management Act, 1837</li>
<li>The Post Office (Offences) Act, 1837</li>
<li>The Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840</li>
<li>The Post Office (Duties) Act, 1844</li>
<li>The Post Office (Duties) Act, 184</li>
<li>The Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848</li>
<li>The Colonial Inland Post Office Act, 1849</li>
<li>The Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act, 1854</li>
<li>The Inland Revenue Act, 1855</li>
<li>The Post Office (Duties) Act, 1860</li>
<li>The Post Office Lands Act, 1863</li>
<li>The Telegraph Act, 1869</li>
<li>The Post Office Act, 1870</li>
<li>The Post Office Act, 1875</li>
<li>The Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879</li>
<li>The Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880</li>
<li>The Post Office (Newspaper) Act, 1881</li>
<li>The Post Office (Land) Act, 1881</li>
<li>The Post Office (Reply Post Cards) Act, 1882</li>
<li>The Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883</li>
<li>The Post Office (Protection) Act, 1884</li>
<li>The Telegraph (Isle of ' Man) Act, 1889</li>
<li>The Post Office Act, 1891</li>
<li>The Post Office Act, 1892</li>
<li>The Post Office Amendment Act, 1895</li>
<li>The Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1897</li>
<li>The Post Office (Guarantee) Act, 1898</li>
<li>The Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898</li>
<li>The Post Office Guarantee (No. 2) Act, 1898</li>
<li>The Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1903</li>
<li>The Post Office Act, 1904</li>
<li>The Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1906</li>
<li>The Post Office (Literature for the Blind) Act, 1906</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Post_Office_Act_1908&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-the_act-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-the_act_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-the_act_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-the_act_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1908/48/enacted">"Post Office Act 1908"</a>. British Government. 21 December 1908<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 September</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APost+Office+Act+1908&rft.btitle=Post+Office+Act+1908&rft.date=1908-12-21&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2F1908%2F48%2Fenacted&rft.pub=British+Government&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5759">"Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 September</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APost+Office+Act+1908&rft.btitle=Postal+and+Telegraph+Censorship+Department%2C+predecessors+and+successor%3A+Papers&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk%2Fdetails%2Fr%2FC5759&rft.pub=The+National+Archives&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acts.ie/print/en.act.1951.0017.1.html">"Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1951"</a>. <i>Number 17 of 1951</i>. <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Ireland" title="Attorney General of Ireland">Attorney General</a>. 17 July 1951<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 September</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APost+Office+Act+1908&rft.atitle=Post+Office+%28Amendment%29+Act%2C+1951&rft.date=1951-07-17&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acts.ie%2Fprint%2Fen.act.1951.0017.1.html&rft.jtitle=Number+17+of+1951&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/Debates%20Authoring/DebatesWebPack.nsf/takes/dail1951062700053?opendocument&highlight=Post%20Office%20%28Amendment%29%20Bill">"Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1951—Second Stage"</a>. <i>Parlimentary Debates Vol. 126 No. 4</i>. Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas. 27 June 1951<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 August</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APost+Office+Act+1908&rft.atitle=Post+Office+%28Amendment%29+Bill%2C+1951%94Second+Stage&rft.date=1951-06-27&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Foireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie%2FDebates%2520Authoring%2FDebatesWebPack.nsf%2Ftakes%2Fdail1951062700053%3Fopendocument%26highlight%3DPost%2520Office%2520%2528Amendment%2529%2520Bill&rft.jtitle=Parlimentary+Debates+Vol.+126+No.+4&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></span></li>
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