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New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act 1870

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Act to be read as part of “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” also unrepealed part of Acts of 1866.

Repeal of rates of postage on letters.

Rates of postage on letters.

Schedule Letters

New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act 1870

Public Act		1870 No 3
Date of assent		23 July 1870

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Commencement of Act.
3	Act to be read as part of “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” also unrepealed part of Acts of 1866.
4	Repeal of rates of postage on letters.
5	Rates of postage on letters.
	Schedule Letters

An Act to amend “The New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1866.”

Preamble.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1866,” hereinafter called “the said Amendment Act,” it is enacted that postage upon any letter and newspaper respectively specified in the Schedule to the said Act shall be levied according to the scale and at the rate set forth and indicated in and by the Schedule to the said Amendment Act, and it is expedient to alter and amend the said scale and rate:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1870.”

2 Commencement of Act.

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

3 Act to be read as part of “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” also unrepealed part of Acts of 1866.

This Act shall be construed as part of “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” and of the several Acts amending the same, so far as the same respectively remain in force and unrepealed.

4 Repeal of rates of postage on letters.

So much of the said Amendment Act and of the Schedule thereto as fixes the rate of postage of letters is hereby repealed.

5 Rates of postage on letters.

Postage upon any letter specified in the Schedule to this Act shall be levied according to the scale and at the rate set forth and indicated in and by the Schedule to this Act, but nothing in this Act shall apply to letters posted for transmission abroad.

Schedule Letters

I.

Town letters posted at any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from such Post Office—

Not exceeding half an ounce	One Penny.
Exceeding half an ounce but not exceeding one ounce	Twopence.
For every half ounce or fraction of half an ounce above one ounce	One Penny.

II.

Country letters posted at any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from any other Post Office within the Colony—

Not exceeding half an ounce	Twopence.
Exceeding half an ounce but not exceeding one ounce	Fourpence.
For every half Ounce or fraction of half an ounce above one ounce	Twopence.

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