Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 29.

 

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 following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighteenth day of February, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H.WISE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 220 is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (5) the following new sub-regulation:—

“(5a) Umbrellas, golf clubs, walking sticks, fishing rods, and similar articles must be protected by two strips of wood, each strip being as long as and slightly wider than the article protected. Unless so packed they will not be accepted for transmission by post.”

2. Regulation 243 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:—

“Umbrellas, golf clubs, walking sticks, fishing rods, and similar articles will not be accepted for transmission by post as fragile parcels.”

 

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