Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION 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
Regulation under the
Dated this thirteenth day of October, 1926.
STONEHAVEN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)
After regulation 237 of the Post and Telegraph Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—
“237a. (1) If the sender of a parcel addressed to a place beyond the Commonwealth does not indicate on the relative Customs Declaration and on the relative Despatch Note (if one is used) that he desires the parcel abandoned in the event of its being undeliverable in the country of destination, the parcel, when so undeliverable, may, without previous notification, be returned to him.
“(2) Upon the return of a parcel in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation or in pursuance of instructions given by the sender, the sender shall pay to the Postmaster-General any charges which shall have accrued in respect of the return of the parcel from the place to which it was addressed, and, upon refusal to do so, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.”
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