Article 16.(Limit of amount of postal money order.) The maximum amount of ordinary money order, telegraphic money order and postal order (hereinafter generally called postal money order), shall be 5,000 yen per order, for ordinary money order and telegraphic money order:1,000 yen for postal order. However, the Minister of Communications may raise the limit of amount of postal money orders to be issued for the purpose of remitting public funds concerning the mail, telegraph, telephone, postal money order, postal savings and postal transfer service between the offices or between the officials and the officials engaged in these services, and ordinary money orders to be issued for the purpose of remitting the collected sum in the treatment of collection or delivery after the designation of the sender of the mail matter.