Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 244.

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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 one 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, as amended by Statutory Rules 1914 No. 59.)

1. Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 339 is repealed and the following sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Replies may be Prepaid.

339. (1) The cost of a reply may be prepaid, and a reply-form shall then be delivered to the addressee, who shall be at liberty to send a telegram of the value prepaid, from any telegraph office within the Commonwealth. A reply-form need not necessarily be used for a reply, but may be used to prepay or partly prepay any single telegram or letter telegram for transmission to any place within the Commonwealth, within three months from the date of issue.

2. Sub-regulation (6) of Regulation 372a is amended by omitting therefrom the words “Reply Paid.”

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