Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 122.

REGULATION UNDERTHE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1914, No. 70.)

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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, namely:—

Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348),

Regulation 60,

to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. H. McCOLL.

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Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348.)

Regulation 60 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

60. The following articles shall not be sent by packet post, viz.:— Cheques, money orders, postal notes—except in bankers’ packets—unobliterated adhesive postage stamps, coin, bank-notes, bullion, gold, and perishable substances, such as game, fish, flesh, fruit, vegetables, and any matter or thing likely to injure any person or the contents of the mail-bags; notices or information relating to lotteries, schemes of chance, unlawful games, fraudulent, obscene, indecent or immoral businesses or undertakings, and other matters coming within the provisions of section 57 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913; also articles not made up in accordance with the Regulations relating to packets, or bearing or containing anything not allowed under such Regulations:

Provided that nothing in this Regulation shall prevent the transmission by packet post of art union tickets.

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

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