Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 133.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 181.)

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the 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. 73.)

1. Regulation 276 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

276. The rates of commission chargeable for the issue of money orders, except as prescribed in Regulations 298a and 298b shall be:—

If payable in—	For Sums—
	Not exceeding £2		Exceeding £2 but not exceeding £5		Exceeding £5 but not exceeding £7		Exceeding £7 but not Exceeding £10.		Exceeding £10 but not exceeding £12		Exceeding £12 but not exceeding £15		Exceeding £15 but not  exceeding £17		Exceeding £17 but not exceeding £20
The Commonwealth....................	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
	0	6	0	6	1	0	1	0	1	6	1	6	2	0	2	0
Papua.............................................	0	9	0	9	1	6	1	6	2	3	2	3	3	0	3	0
New Zealand and Fill.................	0	6	1	0	1	6	2	0	2	6	3	0	3	6	4	0
United Kingdom, other British Possessions, and Foreign Countries	6d. for amount up to £2, and 3d. for each additional pound or fraction of a pound.

C.8201.—Price 3d.

2. The following Regulation is inserted after Regulation 298a:—

298b. (1) Money orders may be issued by District Paymasters of the Defence Department for the purpose of paying allotments of military pay. The commission to be paid on each order, irrespective of the amount of the order, shall be Twopence halfpenny.

(2) The Defence Department shall pay the postage, where payable, on such money orders, when sent to the payees thereof, but no postage shall be payable on the relative advices sent to the paying officers.

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