Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 43.

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 Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen,

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 146.)

Regulation 268 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

268. Immediately upon collection of the amount due on the pared, or at the latest on the day following its collection, such amount shall be remitted to the dispatching office by means of a money order or postal notes loss the usual commission or poundage thereon. When a money order is issued the addressee of the parcel shall be described in the money order letter of advice as the sender of the order, or the “remitter,” and the person or firm by whom the parcel was sent shall be described in such letter of advice asthe person to whom the order is payable, or the “payee.” When postal notes are issued they shall be made payable to the person or firm by whom the parcel was sent at the office from which the parcel was dispatched, and be forwarded by registered mail to the Supervisor, Parcel Post, or the Postmaster at the dispatching office. If however, the sender of a value-payable parcel desires the remittance to be made payable at any Money Order Office in the Commonwealth other than the office from which the parcel is dispatched, he must insert the name of the office at which payment is desired in the space provided or the purpose on the “Value Payable Parcel Post” label. The Postmaster at the delivering office will forward the remittance to the Postmaster at the office at which payment is desired, and will notify the Postmaster at the dispatching office of the action taken.

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

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