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In the Export-Import Bank of India Act, 1981, section 37 shall be omitted with effect from the 1st day of April, 1999.
Section 118 - Amendment of Act 6 of 1898In the Indian Post Office Act, 1898, with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, for the First Schedule, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely :--
"THE FIRST SCHEDULE
(See section 7)
(INLAND POSTAGE RATES)
Letters
| For a weight not exceeding twenty grams | Rs. 3.00 |
| for every twenty grams, or fraction thereof, exceeding twenty grams. | Rs. 3.00 |
| Letter-cards | |
| For a letter-card | Rs. 1.50 |
| Post cards (not being post cards containing printed communication or competition post cards) | |
| Single | 25 paise |
| Reply | 50 paise |
| [Post cards containing printed communication (not being competition post cards)] | |
| For a post card | Rs. 1.50 |
| Explanation.--A post card shall be deemed to contain a printed communication, if any matter (except the name and address of, and other particulars relating to, the sender and the place and date of despatch) is recorded by printing or by cyclostyling or by any other mechanical process, not being typewriting, on any part of the post card except the right hand half of the address-side thereof. | |
| Competition post cards | |
| For a post card | Rs. 3.00 |
| Explanation.--A post card shall be deemed to be a competition post card if it is used in response to any compaction organised on or through television, radio, newspaper, magazine or any other media. | |
| Book pattern and sample packets | |
| For the first fifty grams or fraction thereof | Re. 1.00 |
| For every additional fifty grams, or fraction thereof, in excess of fifty grams | Rs. 2.00 |
| Registered newspapers | |
| For a weight not exceeding fifty grams | 15 paise |
| For a weight exceeding fifty grams but not exceeding one hundred grams | 25 paise |
| For every additional one hundred grams, or fraction thereof, exceeding | |
| one hundred grams | 10 paise |
| In the case of more than one copy of the came issue of a registered | |
| newspaper being carried in the same packet-- | |
| For a weight not exceeding one hundred grams | 25 paise |
| For every additional one hundred grams, or fraction thereof, exceeding one hundred grams | 10 paise; |
| Provided that such packet shall not be delivered at any addressee's residence but shall be given to a recognised agent at the Post Office. | |
| Parcels | |
| For a weight not exceeding five hundred grams | Rs. 10.00 |
| For every five hundred grams, or fraction thereof, exceeding five hundred grams | Rs. 10.00", |
The Finance Act, 1998 is hereby repealed and shall be deemed never to have been enacted.