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Post Office Amendment Act 1895
(58 & 59 Vict c.18, 27th June 1895)

An Act to amend the Post Office Act, 1891.
[27th June 1895]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The parish council of a parish, or where there is no parish council the parish meeting, shall have like powers as are given to a rural sanitary authority under section eight of the Post Office Act, 1891, to guarantee the Postmaster-General against loss sustained by the provision of postal or other facilities as named in that section, and any expenses incurred by the council or meeting under such undertaking shall be deemed to be expenses of the council or of the meeting (as the case may be) within the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894.

2. This Act may be cited as the Post Office Amendment Act, 1895.