Newspaper Postage Act of 1864 No 2a (NSW)

No. VII.

N ewspaper	A	.11 Act to render Newspapers liable to Postage.
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[29 /̂i February, 1864.]

Preamble. T ^ T IIE R E AS it is expedient that a rate of Postage should he imposed

T V upon Newspapers Bo it therefore enacted hy the Queen’s

Most Excellent Majesty hy and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows ;—

All newspaper.? not	1. Upon and after the first day of April one thousand eight
having paid pnsta ’

to be charged one	bavins paid pnstaga hundred and sixty-four a postage rate of one penny shall he payable
pennyon every Newspaper posted within or transmitted through the Post

within the Colony except on Newspapers arriving through the Post

from parts out of the Colony.

Special statutory	2. Provided that nothing herein shall affect any postal arrange­ ments now or hereafter in force between this Colony and other Countries relating to the transmission of Newspapers by Post under the Act eighteenth Victoria number seventeen.
arrangements pro­
tected.

Repeat of part of 15 3. So much of the tenth section of the Act of Council fifteenth

Vic. No. 12 sect. 10.

Victoria number twelve as is in any way inconsistent with this Act is

hereby repealed.

Extension of 1<5 Vic.	4. The eighteenth section of the same Act with reference to
No. 12 sect. IS to

newspapers.	the propayment of postage hy means of stamps and to the providing of such stamps shall be extended so as to apply to Newspapers for the purposes of this Act.
Not coinjnilsory to

send hy Post. 5. It shall not be compulsory to send News2)apcrs by Post.

Short title. 6. This Act shall he styled and may be cited as the “ News­ paper Postage Act of 1861.”

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