Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 150.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

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 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from 1st November, 1926.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of October, 1926.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendments of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 330 is omitted, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

330. Subject to these Regulations the International Telegraph Regulations as to counting shall apply in relation to telegrams within the Commonwealth.

2. Regulation 336 is amended—

(a) by omitting the figures “401 (5)” in sub-regulation (5) and inserting in their stead the figures “384 (5)”; and

(b) by omitting the figures “402” in sub-regulation (7) and inserting in their stead the figures “385”.

3. Regulations 383 to 485 are omitted and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

383. Telegrams to places beyond the Commonwealth are in all cases accepted subject to the provisions of the International Telegraph Convention and the Service Regulations made in conformity therewith, including the condition that no responsibility attaches to the Telegraph Administrations, or to the private telegraph companies, for delay in transmission or delivery, or for non-transmission or non-delivery, or for mistakes, from whatever cause they may arise.

C.15413.—Price 3d.

 

384. (1) An abbreviated and relative full address for telegrams received from places beyond the Commonwealth may be registered at the Chief Telegraph Office of any State on payment of an annual fee of Ten shillings and sixpence, which fee shall cover the period from 1st April to 31st March next following.

(2) An abbreviated address which has not previously been registered may be registered for one month on payment of Two shillings and sixpence, or for the unexpired portion of the year ending 31st March, on payment of a charge at the rate of Two shillings and sixpence per month or portion thereof, but the charge shall not in any case exceed Ten shillings and sixpence.

(3) The concession mentioned in sub-regulation (2) shall not be allowed to a person or firm who has previously registered, but failed to renew the registration, in which case the abbreviated address shall be re-registered only on payment of the full fee of Ten shillings and sixpence in advance, for the balance of the year ending the 31st March next following the payment.

(4) The fee shall be charged in respect of each abbreviated and relative full address registered at any one office.

(5) In cases where one and the same abbreviated address is registered by a person or firm for telegrams within the Commonwealth and for telegrams beyond the Commonwealth, the fee of Two pounds two shillings prescribed in regulation 336 for the registration of abbreviated addresses for telegrams within the Commonwealth shall cover both registrations.

385. The following conditions shall apply to the registration of abbreviated addresses, viz.:—

(a) The address must consist of two words only, namely, the code indicator and the name of the office of destination.

(b) The word forming the code indicator 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 name is not likely to give rise to confusion. A proper name containing more than ten letters may be registered as a code indicator, but shall be counted at the rate of one word for every ten letters or part thereof. In no case shall a proper name be registered for a person, firm, or company of a different name.

(c) The word forming the code indicator must not consist of a number, or of the name of a profession, trade, country, State, town, telegraph station, well-known street, or registered newspaper, except in the case of an abbreviated address registered by the proprietor of such newspaper.

(d) The Postmaster-General will reject words which, either in writing or in telegraph symbols, so closely resemble other registered words as to be liable to be mistaken

 

for them. Persons applying for the registration of abbreviated addresses should submit several words, from which a selection may be made.

(e) All addresses registered for delivery within a city postal area must contain the name of that city. The name of a district in the postal area of a town shall not be substituted for the name of the town.

(f) The Postmaster-General reserves to himself the right to cancel any address. In such a case a part of the registration fee proportionate to the unexpired period for which payment has been made shall be returned, or a new address substituted for the one cancelled.

(g)In the event of a change in the title of a firm for which an address is recorded, the consent, in writing, of all the partners of the firm must be produced before the records can be altered.

386. A person or firm who has paid the prescribed fee for the registration of an abbreviated telegraphic address may have such address notified in the Commonwealth Post Office Guide upon payment of an additional fee of Two shillings and sixpence per annum.

387. Telegraphic messages for transmission by cable to places beyond the Commonwealth shall be given precedence of Commonwealth ordinary and press telegrams.

388. The charge for re-direction to a new address within the Commonwealth shall be the full charge for an ordinary telegram within the Commonwealth at suburban, intra-State, or inter-State rates, as the case may be, unless directions are given for the retransmission to be effected urgently, in which case the respective urgent rates shall be charged.

 

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