Postal Services Regulations 2008 - Singapore Statutes Online

No. S 231

Postal Services Act

(Chapter 237A)

Postal Services Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61 of the Postal Services Act, the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Postal Services Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 2nd May 2008.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“class licence” has the same meaning as in the Postal Services (Class Licence) Regulations 2005 (G.N. No. S 481/2005);

“foreign postal administration” means a postal operator that has been designated by a country outside Singapore as the postal administration for that country responsible for fulfilling the obligations under the UPU Acts;

“postal administration for Singapore” means a postal licensee that is designated by the Postal Authority as the postal administration responsible for fulfilling the obligations under the UPU Acts in Singapore;

“prohibited article” means any article referred to in regulation 3;

“UPU Acts” means the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union, the Universal Postal Convention and any agreements, regulations, rules, appendices, annotated acts and codes, manuals or arrangements issued thereunder, as amended from time to time, that are —

(a)	published by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union in pursuance of the agreement concluded by the member countries concerned in the Universal Postal Union Congress; and
(b)	applicable to Singapore.

Made this 24th day of April 2008.

YONG YING-I

Chairman,
Info-communications Development
Authority of Singapore.

[IDA/LGL/3.0/LAW-09; AG/LEG/SL/237A/2000/1 Vol. 1]

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