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RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963

RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - LONG TITLE

An Act to authorise the sending by the recorded delivery service of
certain documents and other things required or authorised to be sent
by registered post; to authorise notices under the Eviction (Ireland)
Act 1848 to be sent by the recorded delivery service; and for
purposes connected with those matters.
[26th February 1963]
Recorded delivery service to be an alternative to registered post.

RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - SECT 1

1.(1) Any enactment which requires or authorises a document or other
thing to be sent by registered post (whether or not it makes any
other provision in relation thereto) shall have effect as if it
required or, as the case may be, authorised that thing to be sent
by registered post or the recorded delivery service; and any
enactment which makes any other provision in relation to the sending
of a document or other thing by registered post or to a thing so
sent shall have effect as if it made the like provision in
relation to the sending of that thing by the recorded delivery
service or, as the case may be, to a thing sent by that service.

(2) The Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of making
consequential adaptations of the enactments therein mentioned.

(3) The Governor may by Order in Council make such amendments of
any enactment contained in a local or private Act (being an
enactment to which this section applies) as appear to him to be
necessary or expedient in consequence of sub-section (1).

(4) The Governor shall not be recommended to make an Order in
Council under sub-section (3) until a draft thereof has been subject
to negative resolution.

(5) This section shall not be construed as authorising the sending
by the recorded delivery service of anything which under the Post
Office Act 1953 or any instrument thereunder is not allowed to be
sent by that service.

S.2 rep. by 1969 c.30 (NI) s.132 sch.6

RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - SECT 3
Application and interpretation.

3.(1) Subject to sub-section (2), section 1 and the Schedule apply
to the following enactments, that is to say

(a)the provisions of any Act of Parliament (whether public general,
local or private) passed before this Act;

(b)the provisions of any local or private Act of the Parliament of
the United Kingdom which extends only to Northern Ireland, being an
Act passed before the appointed day within the meaning of section 6
of the Government of Ireland Act 1920;

(2) Section 1 and the Schedule do not apply to any enactment
which, either as originally enacted or as amended by any subsequent
enactment, requires or authorises a thing to be sent by the
recorded delivery service as an alternative to registered post or
makes provision in relation to a thing sent by that service.

(3) In this Act

references to sending a document or other thing include references
to serving, giving or delivering it or doing any similar thing;

references to sending any thing by registered post include references
to sending it by or in a registered letter or packet, whether the
references are expressed in those terms or terms having the like
effect and whether or not there is any mention of the post or
pre-payment;

references to any thing sent by registered post or the recorded
delivery service shall be construed accordingly; and

references to a local Act include references to any Act confirming
a provisional order or scheme.

RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - SECT 4
Short title.

4. This Act may be cited as the Recorded Delivery Service Act
(Northern Ireland) 1963.1. Any reference, however worded

(a)in any enactment the provisions of which apply to, or operate in
consequence of the operation of, any enactment amended by section 1;
or

(b)in any enactment relating to the sending of documents or other
things otherwise than by registered post or to documents or other
things so sent;

2. Paragraph 1 shall not be taken to prejudice the generality of
section 1(1).

Para.3 amends s.7 of 1953 c.19 (NI)