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In 1663, during the reign of Charles II, England’s imperial Post Office established a packet agency on the island. Barbados was the second territory in the British West Indies to establish an inland post service by an Act of Parliament. The local legislature much later passed the Post Office Act in 1851.
Ireland. Post Office Act, 1908, Adaptation Order, ... Offences Act 2024; The Post Office Acts 1837 to 1895 was the collective title of the following acts: [2]
Long title: An Act to abolish the office of master of the Post Office, distribute the business conducted by the holder thereof amongst authorities constituted for the purpose and make provision consequential on the abolition of that office and the distribution of the business so conducted; to amend, replace or repeal certain provisions of the enactments relating to posts, telegraphs and ...
The government is to review the future oversight of private prosecutions, in light of the Post Office Horizon scandal and wider controversies that suggest there are currently insufficient ...
The office of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs was created by the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, which reorganised the Irish system of government shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The Minister exercised those functions which had formerly been exercised by the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.
The British Packet Agency office was amalgamated with the Barbados Post Office in 1858. Six pence red and one-shilling brown-black stamps were ordered and sent to the island in October 1858. These stamps did show the value. Up till 1860 all the stamps were imperforate, [5] from 1860 the stamps were supplied perforated.
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Prior to this, the Post Office in Ireland had been under the control of various Postmasters General, Irish and British, with the appointment of Evan Vaughan as postmaster in Dublin in 1638, generally accepted as the date for the establishment of a semi-formal postal system in Ireland. [2] Oliver Cromwell's Postal Act of 1657 created a combined ...