Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 13.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued Provisionally as Statutory Rules 1914, No. 152.)

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 twenty-first day of January, 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Regulations 151 and 152 are repealed, andthe following Regulations are inserted in their stead:—

151. (1) Postal articles posted without addresses or bearing illegible addresses, and those which the addressees refuse to receive owing to postage being payable or other cause, must be transmitted without delay to the Dead Letter Office for disposal.

(2) Letters or packets posted in the Commonwealth addressed to a fixed address other than a post-office, and letters and packets addressed to initials or noms de plume at a post-office to be called for, not indorsed for return to the senders within a specified time, as provided by Section 46 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, and which cannot be delivered, shall be returned to the senders after the expiration of eight days; other letters or packets posted within

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the Commonwealth for delivery within the Commonwealth shall be retained at the office of destination for one month; letters or packets received from a place beyond the Commonwealth shall be retained for two months; letters or packets addressed to ships, excepting those addressed to passengers, shall be retained for four months; letters and packets addressed to passengers on board ships shall, if posted in places beyond the Commonwealth, be retained for two months, and if posted within the Commonwealth, be retained for one month. As soon as possible after the expiration of the respective periods the letters or packets must be returned through the Dead Letter Office to the writers, if posted in the State to which addressed, and, if not, to the State or country of origin.

152. Newspapers other than those coming within the provisions of Regulation 151 (1) must be kept at the office of destination for one month waiting delivery, and at the expiration of that period must be forwarded to the General Post Office for disposal according to law; but if the covers or wrappers bear in print the name of the publisher or vendor the newspapers must be returned, if so required, to such publisher or vendor, on payment of postage at the prescribed rate.

 

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