Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983

• Original version: <a href='/vid/postal-and-telecommunications-services-907695902'>Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983</a>

1. General

This Act provides for the establishment of two limited Companies which have been formed and registered under the Companies Act. The names of the Companies are, respectively –

(a) An Post or in the English language, The Post Office, and

(b) Bord Telecom Eireann or, in the English language, The Irish Telecommunications Board [now Eircom Limited].

Each company is exempt from the requirement of the Companies Act, 1963, to include the word ‘limited’ or ‘teoranta’ in its title. An Post is to manage the postal and savings Services and Bord Telecom Eireann is to manage the Telecommunications Services. The Act sets out the functions, duties and powers of the two Companies and provides for the transfer to them of many of the rights, duties and liabilities relating to postal, telecommunications and saving services vested in the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs under various Acts.

2. Vesting Procedure

Section 40 of the Act provides for the transfer on the Vesting day of all land which immediately before that day was vested in the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and was used for the purposes of functions assigned by the Act to one Company and was not used in connection with the functions assigned to the other Company such land and all rights, powers and privileges relating to it, without any conveyance or assignment, stands vested in the first-mentioned company for all the estate or interest of the Minister but subject to all trusts or equities if any affecting it.

Lands vested in the Minister before the Vesting day and used partly in connection with functions assigned to one company and partly in connection with functions...