Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 245.

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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 andTelegraph Act 1901–1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twelfth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

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.)

1. Regulation 182 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Impressing Stamps on Envelopes, Wrappers, &.c., for the public.

182. Postage stamps may be impressed or embossed on envelopes, envelopes combined with sheets of note-paper, wrappers, or circulars with reply halves intended to be used as orders for publications, goods, &c, supplied by the public for that purpose, provided that not fewer than 500 envelopes, wrappers, or such circulars of any one size, be supplied at the one time, and that the paper for wrappers be in sheets and not cut in slips. Coloured envelopes or wrappers approved of by the Deputy Postmaster-General may be accepted for impression, but envelopes or wrappers too thin to bear the impression of the die shall not he accepted. Envelopes or wrappers provided by the Postmaster-General's Department, with the proper stamp thereon, may be substituted for any which may be spoiled in the operation of stamping.

The charges, which must be paid in advance, shall be:—

The value of the stamps, and 2s. per thousand, or portion of a thousand, for the work of stamping.

2. Regulation 183 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

183. Envelopes, envelopes combined with sheets of note-paper, wrappers; or circulars with reply halves intended to be used as orders for publications, goods, &c. upon which it is desired that postage stamps shall be impressed or embossed, may be accepted at any official post-office, and, when accepted, may be transmitted to and returned from the General Post Office without charge for postage.

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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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