Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 231.

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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT l901–1916.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1916, No. 123.)

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 twentieth day of September, 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.)

Regulation 5 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Holiday Arrangements

5. On Christmas Day and Good Friday the same arrangements shall be observed as on Sunday; and on other Public Holidays the arrangements shall be as follow:—

—	New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, King’s Birthday, Boxing Day, and Holidays proclaimed throughout the Commonwealth, or appointed or proclaimed in any State or Part of a State, and generally observed in that State or Part as Public Holidays.	Other Days or Half-days appointed or proclaimed as Holidays in any State or part of a State, but not generally observed in that State or Part as Holidays.
General Post Office— The Delivery Office, Registration Office, and office for sale of postage stamps	Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.	Open as on ordinary days
Private boxes.........................................	Open as on ordinary days	Open as on ordinary days
The country mails usually despatched after 10 a.m., also the coastwise, Inter-State, and foreign mails	Close at 10 a.m. unless otherwise specially intimated	Open as on ordinary days
Delivery by letter carriers......................	First delivery only effected	Open as on ordinary days
The Parcels Office.................................	Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.	Open as on ordinary days
The Money Order Office.......................	Closed	Open as on ordinary days
The Chief Telegraph Office..................	Open as on ordinary days	Open as on ordinary days
All other Post and Telegraph Offices for all classes of postal and telegraphic business, except money order business	Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.	Open as on ordinary days
Delivery by letter-carriers.......................... The iron pillar-receivers and letter-boxes in the capital cities and suburbs	First delivery only effected Cleared only at the ordinary hours in the morning, or alternatively in the evening, as may be arranged	As on ordinary days Cleared as on ordinary days

NOTE:––If British and Foreign mails arrive, or are despatched, on any of the above mentioned holidays, special

 arrangements must be made to suit the public convenience.

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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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