Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 154.

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eleventh day of July, 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.)

1. Regulation 336 is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following Sub-regulation:—

(6) The conditions prescribed by Regulation 402 shall apply to abbreviated telegraphic addresses registered under this Regulation.

2. Regulation 402 is amended by repealing paragraph (b) and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—

(b)The word forming the code indicator must contain not more than ten letters, and must be easy to read and easy to telegraph. Proper names shall only be registered in cases where it is considered locally that the registration of such names is not likely to give rise to confusion. No proper name shall be registered if there is another person, firm or company of the same name in the same town, and in no case shall a proper name be registered for a person, firm or company of a different name.

 

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