Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 134.

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 twentieth day of June, 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 1916, No. 114, and 1917, No. 27.)

Regulations 31, 32, and 33 are repealed, and the following Regulations are inserted in their stead:—

Printed Papers.

31. Printed papers include all wholly printed matter (except as prescribed in Sub-regulation (2) of Regulation 32), such as pamphlets, sheets of music (including perforated paper rolls of music for use in playing musical instruments), single visiting cards and address cards, circulars (wholly printed), a circular with a reply half or with a printed addressed reply envelope intended to be used as or in connexion with an order for publications, goods, &c., and with or without an impressed postage stamp thereon, proofs of printing, papers impressed with points in relief for the use of the blind, engravings, photographs, and albums containing photographs, pictures, drawings, plans, maps, catalogues (except those wholly set up and printed in Australia), prospectuses, announcements, and notices of various kinds, and similar articles, whether loose or bound; paper patterns, usually sent in or with a journal of fashion, printed in the Commonwealth of Australia from type set up therein, or from stereotyped plates made therefrom, may be considered as part of such journal.

32. (1) Circulars which are in other respects admissible, but which are printed or lithographed in characters resembling those of the typewriter, or are produced by means of any mechanical process from, written or type-written originals, may also be transmitted at the printed papers rate of postage, provided they are handed in at the counter of a post-office, and at least twenty copies precisely identical are posted at the same time. Each cover must be marked by the sender “20 posted,” except, when quantities are posted prepaid in cash under Regulation 112.

 

(2) The following articles shall not be eligible for transmission at printed papers rate of postage:—

Communications having the nature of actual or personal correspondence, whether printed or otherwise; or those in which the signature is printed in such a way as to give the impression that it has been written by hand, and is, therefore, personal; or those which are, or are intended to be, of personal interest to the addressee only (as distinguished from such communications as notices of meetings and circulars which are of interest to several addressees); or circular communications conveying instructions, &c., from central offices of banks, insurance, and other societies, or trading and other companies, to officers in branch offices.

33. All printed matter with, additions, corrections, or alterations (in writing, by rubber stamp or any mechanical process), must bear postage at the rate applicable to commercial papers, unless such printed matter or additions, corrections, or alterations have the nature of actual or personal correspondence, in which case they must bear postage at the rate applicable to letters.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert j. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.7181.—Price 3d.