Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 169.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

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, do hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 15th day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy for 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Regulation 223 and the heading thereof are repealed, and the following heading and Regulation are inserted in their stead:—

Certificate of Posting and Acknowledgment of Delivery.

223. (1) The registration system is not applicable to other than value-payable parcels, but a certificate of the posting of one parcel, or any number of parcels posted at the one time by the same person or firm, may be obtained without charge. The form of certificate must, in all cases, be filled in by the sender or his representative, and handed in at the parcels post office with the parcel or parcels.

(2) If the form be duly handed in, accompanied by a fee of 2d. per parcel, a special receipt from the addressee, or other person to whom such parcel, if addressed to any place within the Commonwealth, is delivered, acknowledging the receipt thereof, must be obtained and forwarded to the sender.

 

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