Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 188.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

I, SIR ARTUHR, 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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy for the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348.)

Regulation 238 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Parcels Received from Places beyond the Commonwealth.

238. Parcels which cannot be delivered shall, in the absence of instructions from the senders respecting same, or in cases where they are abandoned by the senders, be retained in the State of destination for a period of one month in the case of parcels from the United States of America; four months in the case of parcels from New Zealand and Fiji; and seven months in all other cases, when, if still undelivered, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Parcel Post Agreement with the country from which they were received. In cases where the Parcel Post Agreement does not provide for the parcel to be returned to the country of origin for disposal, undelivered parcels shall be sold by public auction or destroyed as may be directed by the Deputy Postmaster-General.

 

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