Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 146.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 80.)

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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 18th day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

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.)

Regulations 259, 262, 263, 266, 268, 269, and 272 are repealed, and the following Regulations are inserted in their stead:—

259. Value-payable parcels may be handed in for transmission at any parcels office which is also a money order office, to be sent to any other parcels office which is also a money order or a postal note office.

262. Value-payable parcels must be presented at the office of posting with the prescribed registration form, in duplicate, filled up and signed by the sender, with a certificate added that the parcel is sent in execution of a bonâ fide order. The duplicate must be signed by the parcel clerk and be returned to the sender.

263. When articles sent in execution of an order from one individual must necessarily on account of weight be forwarded in two or more parcels, and such parcels are posted at the same time and to the same address, a single remittance for the whole order may be arranged, provided the parcels are all accepted and paid for at the same time, but if an addressee takes delivery of only one parcel of a consignment, the value of that parcel is to be remitted, less commission on money order or poundage on postal notes as the case may be. The value of other parcels shall be remitted according as they are accepted and paid for, commission or poundage being deducted. In such cases, however, the certificate provided for in Regulation 262 must specify that, to the best of the sender’s knowledge, the articles are for the bonâ fide personal use of the addressee.

 

266. Value-payable parcels may be indorsed by the senders with a special request that they be returned to the senders if not claimed within a specified time, not being less than fourteen days or more than one month, and parcels with such indorsements must be promptly returned free of charge at the expiration of the period fixed by the indorsement.

268. Immediately upon collection of the amount due on the parcel, or at the latest on the day following its collection, such amount shall be remitted to the despatching office by means of a money order or postal notes less the usual commission or poundage thereon. When a money order is issued the addressee of the parcel shall be described in the money order letter of advice as the sender of the order, or the “remitter,” and the person or firm by whom the parcel was sent shall be described in such letter of advice as the person to whom the order is payable, or the “payee.” When postal notes are issued they shall be made payable to the person or firm by whom the parcel was sent at the office from which the parcel was despatched and be forwarded by registered mail to the Postmaster at the despatching office. If, however, the sender of a value-payable parcel desires the remittance to be made payable at any Money Order Office in the Commonwealth other than the office from which the parcel is despatched, he must insert the name of the office at which payment is desired in the space provided for the purpose on the “Value Payable Parcel Post” label. The Postmaster at the delivering office will forward the remittance to the Postmaster at the office at which payment is desired, and will notify the Postmaster at the despatching office of the action taken.

269. Immediately on receipt at the despatching office of remittances in favour of senders of value-payable parcels, particulars of such remittances must be entered in the value-payable journal, and the senders advised. The money orders or postal notes must be handed to the persons in whose favour they are drawn (that is, the senders of the value-payable parcels), and senders’ receipts must be taken in the value-payable journal opposite the record of the parcel. In cases where at the desire of the sender payment of the remittance is effected at an office other than the despatching office, the Postmaster at the office of payment shall forward the sender’s receipt to the Postmaster at the despatching office, who shall retain such document and make a suitable notation in the value-payable journal opposite the record of the parcel.

272. Value-payable parcels must be advised to the office to which they are despatched on the special value-payable parcel bill (as supplied to value-payable offices). On receipt they must be checked and if for despatch to another office they must be re-advised on the value-payable bill. The presence of value-payable parcels in the mail must be noted on the ordinary parcel bill. All value-payable parcels must have the proper coloured label attached; this is the only marking necessary.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.10555.—Price 3d.