MONEY-ORDERS.
(a) Inland money-orders are obtainable at any of the offices of the United Kingdom on payment of the following commission:—
| On sums not exceeding 2l. | for | 3d. | ||
| Above 2l. | and not exceeding | 5l. | " | 6d. |
| Above 5l. | " | 7l. | " | 9d. |
| Above 7l. | " | 10l. | " | 1s. 0d. |
The commission on money-orders made payable in any of the British Colonies where money-order business is transacted is four times the sum charged for inland orders, except at Gibraltar and Malta, where the commission is only three times the British rate.
(b) The amount of any one money-order cannot exceed 10l., nor less than 1d. No order is allowed to contain a fractional part of a penny.
(c) Applications for a money-order should always be made in writing. "Application Forms" are supplied gratuitously at all money-order offices. The surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name of both the person who sends the order, and the person to whom the money is to be paid, must always be given. The address of the remitter of the money should also be given. The following exceptions are allowed to the above rule:—
- (1) If the remitter or payee be a peer or bishop, his ordinary title is sufficient.
- (2) If a firm, the usual designation will suffice—if that designation consist of names of persons, and not of a company trading under a title.
- (3) Money-orders sent to the Privy Council may be issued payable to "The Privy Council Office."
- (4) When the remitter notifies that the order is to be paid through a bank, he may withhold the name of the person for whom it is intended if he chooses; or he may, if he wishes, substitute a designation instead of a person's name; as, for example, he may make an order payable, through a bank, to "The Cashier of the Bank of England," or "The Publisher of The Times."
(d) A money-order is always issued on the head office of any town where there are several money-order offices, except the persons sending it request that it should be made out for some other subordinate office.
(e) The sender of any money-order may make his order payable ten days after date, by simply signing a requisition at the foot of the order to that effect, and affixing a penny receipt-stamp to his signature.