AI-assisted research summary: This scheme changes the free-postage rules for Dáil election communications and broadens what forms of communication are acceptable.
S.I. No. 291/1984 - Dáil Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984 An Post, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 50 of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), and by Section 74 of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), having consulted the Minister for the Environment and with the consent of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Scheme: 1. (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Dáil Elections Free Postage (Amendment) Scheme, 1984. (2) The Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1961 ) and this scheme may be cited as the Dáil Elections Free Postage Schemes 1961 to 1984. 2. This Scheme shall be construed as one with the Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961. 3. The Dáil Elections Free Postage Regulations, 1961 are hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a) of Regulation 8: "(a) communications shall either be enclosed in closed or unclosed covers or be folded or be in such other form (whether or not in covers) consistent with these Regulations as shall, in the opinion of An Post, not be likely to impede sorting or to entrap other postal packets." GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 5th day of October, 1984. PRESENT when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed Desmond G. Hickey _______________________________ Gerard P. Harvey ______________________ _______________________________ Jim Treacy ______________________ An Post, General Post Office, Dublin 1. I, JAMES MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, hereby consent to the provisions of the foregoing Scheme. GIVEN under my Official Seal this 19th day of October, 1984. JAMES MITCHELL, Minister for Communications. EXPLANATORY NOTE. The purpose of this Scheme is to broaden the criteria of acceptability of the form of communication which may be sent, free of postage, by candidates at a Dáil Election to every person registered as an elector.