Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended
Regulation under the
Dated this twenty-second day of August, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
WILLIAM WEBSTER,
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations, 1913.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 60.)
Regulation 313 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—
313. Telegrams tendered for transmission must be written in a plain and legible manner, and, when practicable, on the proper form, and the address must contain all information necessary to avoid delay and insure delivery. Addresses consisting only of two words, representing the addressee and the office of destination, shall not be accepted, except in the case of press telegrams and telegrams addressed to “Police,” unless the sender guarantees that the word representing the addressee is a registered code indicator. When a telegram is intended to be delivered to one person in care of another person, the word “care” must be written in the address immediately after the name of the addressee. The signature of the sender need not be transmitted, or a telegram may have an abbreviated signature known to the receiver, but the correct signature of the sender must appear on the back of each telegram as a guarantee of its authenticity, and as subscribing to the conditions under which it is transmitted. In the text of telegrams, amounts, or numbers, must be written in words only; provided that ordinary telegrams on His Majesty’s Service, sent by officers in and belonging to His Majesty’s Navy, may be written in figures only; and, where necessary, figures may be used in the text of telegrams relating to Money Order and Government Savings Bank business, in the text of telegrams from Commonwealth and State Departments generally, and in the text of press telegrams. The use of figures in the addresses of telegrams is also permitted. The sign “&” must always be transmitted as “and.”
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
C.10471.—Price 3d.
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