Post and Telegraph
No. 149 of 1965
An
Act to amend the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1961
in relation to Decimal Currency.
[Assented to 18 December, 1965]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Post and Telegraph Act 1965.
(2.) The Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1961, as
amended by this Act, may be cited as the Post
and Telegraph Act 1901-1965.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come
into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and
sixty-six.
Undelivered
postal articles.
3. Section 46 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1961 is
amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the
words “, and which is transmissible at a rate of not less than One penny for
two ounces,”; and
(b) by omitting sub-section (3.).
Validity and value of postage stamps issued in
former currency.
4.—(1.) During the period from and including the
fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, to and
including the thirteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and
sixty-eight, postage stamps indicating an amount in the currency provided for
by the Coinage Act 1909-1947 may be
used for any purpose for which postage stamps may be used under a law in force
in the Commonwealth.
(2.) The equivalent amount in the currency provided
for by the Currency Act 1965 to an
amount in the currency provided for by the Coinage
Act 1909-1947 indicated on a postage stamp shall, subject to the next
succeeding sub-section, be calculated on the basis of the equivalents specified
in sub-section (4.) of section 8 of the Currency
Act 1965.
(3.) Where
the amount indicated in the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1907-1947 on a postage stamp is an amount of shillings
and pence or pence, the corresponding amount in the
currency provided for by the Currency Act 1965 shall be calculated on
the basis that an amount of pence specified in the first column in the table
set out in sub-section (3.) of section 11 of the Currency Act 1965 corresponds to the amount of cents specified in
the second column of that table opposite to that amount of pence.
Exchange of stamps issued in former currency.
5.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section,
during the period from and including the fourteenth day of February, One
thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, to and including the thirteenth day of
February, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, postage stamps indicating
an amount in the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1909-1947 may be exchanged at a post office for stamps
indicating an amount in the currency provided for by the Currency Act 1965 that is calculated in accordance with the last
preceding section.
(2.) Postage
stamps indicating an amount in the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1909