REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

27]

NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, I975/MAGHA 12, 1896

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS

(Posts and Telegraphs Board)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 31st January 1975

G.S.R. 40(E)—In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10, 28, 30 and 74 of the

Indian post Office Act, 1899 (6 of 1898), the Central Government hereby makes the following

rules further to amend the Indian Post Office Rules, 1933, namely:—

I.. (1) These rules may be called the Indian Post Office (First Amendment) Rules, 1975.

(2) They shall come into force on the 10th day of February, 1975.

In, the Indian Post Office Rules, 1933—

(a) for rules 5 and 5A, the following rules shall be substituted, namely:—

"5. The following rates of postage shall be chargeable on postal articles where the pes-

tage is pre-paid.

I. Letters

For a weight

Not exceeding 20 grams

Exceeding 20 but not exceeding 50 grams

Bhutan,

Nepal and

Bangladesh

Inland

Rates

Australia,

Japan, Laos

Thailand,

New Zea-

land, Korea,

Phillipines

and

Indonesia

Rs. P.

0.90

1.60

Other

, Foreign

countries

Rs. P.

1.20

2.15

(185)

igfi

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAOBDINARY

[P^RT IJ,—

Exceeding 50 but not exceeding 100 grams .

Exceeding 100 but not exceeding 250 grams .

Exceeding 250 but not exceeding 500 grams .

Exceeding 300 but not exceeding 1000 grams

Exceeding 1000 but not exceeding 2000 grams

II.

Post Cards

Inland

Rates

Inland

Rates

Rs.

2-00

4"75

8'80

14-70

23-5°

O'6o

P.RsP

2'75

6-30

11'75

i960

3i'35

0'80

III.

Printed

Papers

(including

Newspapers

and

Books)

For a weight

Not exceeding 20 grams

Exceeding 20 but not exceeding 50 grams

Exceeding 50 but not exceeding 100 grams

Exceeding 100 but not exceeding 250 grams .

Exceeding 250 but not exceeding 500 grams .

Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 1000 grams

Exceeding 1000 but not exceeding 2000 grams

Per 1000 grama exceeding 2000 grams .

Inland

rates as for

books

packets.

0'45

o-6o

0-75

1-15

2-00

3'55

5 9 0

3-00

o-6o

o-8o

I'Oo

i-55

2-75

4'7o

7 8 5

4-00

Provided that in the case of newspapers which, for the purpose of Inland Post, are

treated as "registered newspapers" the rate of postage for each copy (with the

exception of Sri Lanka) shall be as follows:—

For a weight

Not exceeding 20 grams

Exceeding 20 but not exceeding 50 grams

Exc:eding 50 but not exceeding 100 grams

Exceeding 100 but not exceeding 250 grams ,

Exceeding 230 but not exceeding 300 grams .

Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 1000 grams

Exceeding 1000 but not exceeding 2000 grams

Per 1000 grams exceeding 2000 grams .

Inland

rates as

for Regis-

tered

News-

papers.

0-25

0-30

0 4 0

o-6o

1-oo

1'75

3'Oo

i-50

0-30

0-40

0-50

o-8o

1-40

2-35

3 9 0

2 '00

Provided further that In the case of newspapers for Sri Lanka, the rate of postage for each

copy shall ba as follows:—

(t) In the case of a single copy—

For a weight

Not exceeding 100 grams

Encoding 100 but not exceeding 250 grams

Per 230 grams exceeding 250 grams^ .

10 Palse

. 15 Paise

5 Palse.

(it)

In the case of more than one oopy of the same issue being' carried jn the same

packets—

For a weight

Not exceeding 100 grams .

Per 150 grams exceeding 100 grams

10 Paise

10 Palse

V. "Blind Littraturt" Packets

"B'.i I i L'tirjturj" pickets to all foreign countries shell be exempted from postage.

Sni'.l Pjck;ts (Sample and Small Packets)

For a weight

N)t exc^cdinij 100 gratm

Ey:e;;iir>5 ico but not exceeding 250 grams .

Et^eJing 2J0 but not exceeding 500 grams

Eteieiing 50:1 but not exceeding 1000 grams'

Inland

rates as

for sample

Packets

0-9°

1-75

3-00

5-25

I'20

2-35

3.90

7-00

Itefc. 3(i)]

THE GA2ETTB OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

VI.

Irtsured Boxes

For a weight

Not exceeding 250 grands") .

I*er 50 grants exceeding 250 grain*

Rs. P.

—>—>

i—

'<->

3-bd

o-6b

I'll; Director General shall, from time to tirrte, declare in the Post Office Guide, Pirt it

th= Countries and places to which insured boxes can be transmitted by the Foreign Letter Post;

Vll. Pattili

The Director Gcnefal shall, torn time to time, declare In the Post Oftjce Guide, Part 11^

the countries and places to which parcels may be transmitted by the Foreign Post and the rates

of postage changeable in each case.

Postae and other charges due on parcels which are returned as UhdeHVersble frctn the

countries and places of the destination iagaccordance with the arrangements In fcrce bclAvccn

India and nuch countries and places shall be recovered from senders in India.

5A. The following rates of postage shall be chargeable on the gross Weight of a bulk

bag of printed matter when the postage Is pre-paid, namely :<—

I .

Bags containing

Bags containing oiher

Registered Kewspapers printed matter Whether

only

with or without regis-

tered neWBpaperi

For a weight

For a Weight

Not

Per

Not

Per

exceeding

Kilogram exceeding Kilogram

5 Kilograms exceeding 5 Kilo- exceeding

5 Kilograma

grams

5 Kilo-

grams

Rs. P.

For Australia, Japan, Laos, Thailand, New-

^Zealand, Korea, Philliplnes and Indonesia .

T 50

For Sri Lo,nka^

'3 • 4°

For other foreign countries with the exception

of Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh

1000

LRs. P.

1 -50

0-70

2-00

Rs. P,

15'oo

20-OO

20'00

Ra. P'

3-00

4 •00

4-00'¹;

188

Tltfc GAZfTtE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

[PASt II—

(6)

In Rah 6, forth-existing'Schedule'(excluding the lists of counttbs), the following

'Schedule' shall be substituted, namely:—

"SCHEDULE

Rates of ail

for each 10

Destination

fraction

(payable in

to surface

(f») Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal .

(6) Afghanistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and Maldive

Islands

(d) Countries and places included in List II below

(i) Countries and places included in List III

below

(/)

Countries and places included in list IV below

Letters

Rs. P.

0'45

cr8o

0'8o

i'30

: mail fee

Rates of postage In

grams or elusive of air mail fc

thereof

addition

postage)

Printed

Postcard

Aerogrammc

papers

(including

newspapers),

literature

for

the.

blind and

Bmall

packets

Re. P.

Rs. P.

Inland Rates

O'i5

0 9 0

0•20

1 2 0

6•40

1-20

0 4 0

1 2 0

0'50

I•20

Rs. P.

1-oo

1-25

1 2 5

1-25

(fi) In rule 68, for the existing Table, the following Table shall be substituted, namely:—

"TABLE

Ltttcr, air letter, postcard and packet

Bulk bag of printed matter

Rupee one and twenty five paise.

Rupees six and twenty five paise."

[No. 1-13/74/R]

DALJINDER SINGH,

Senior Member (PO) and

Ex-officio Addl. Secy.