Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 73.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901‑1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1914, No. 30.)

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, namely :—

AMENDMENT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH REGULATIONS 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348.)

to come into operation on the fourth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Dated this tenth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor‑General.

By His Excellency's Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

AMENDMENT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH REGULATIONS 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348.)

1. Regulation 276 is repealed, and the following regulation is inserted in its stead :—

The rates of commission chargeable for the issue of money orders, except as prescribed in Regulation 298a, shall be :—

If payable in—	For Sums—
	Not exceeding £2.		Exceeding £2, but not exceeding £5.		Exceeding £5, but not exceeding £7.		Exceeding £7, but not exceeding £10.		Exceeding £10, but not exceeding £12.		Exceeding £12, but not exceeding £15.		Exceeding £15, but not exceeding £17.		Exceeding £17, but not exceeding £20.
s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
The Commonwealth................................................................	0	6	0	6	1	0	1	0	1	6	1	6	2	0	2	0
New Zealand and Fiji...............................................................	0	6	1	0	1	6	2	0	2	6	3	0	3	6	4	0
Papua..........................................................................................	0	9	0	9	1	6	1	6	2	3	2	3	3	0	3	0
United Kingdom, other British Possessions, and Foreign Countries...............................................................................	6d. for any amount up to £2, and 3d. for each additional pound or fraction of a pound.

C.7526.—Price 3d.

 

2. The following regulation is inserted after Regulation 298 :—

298a. (1.) Maternity Allowance Money Orders may be issued by Deputy Commissioners of Maternity Allowances. The amount of each Maternity Allowance Money Order shall be Five pounds, and the commission to be paid on each order shall be Twopence.

(2.) The Maternity Allowance Authorities shall prepay the postage, where payable, on such money orders when sent to the payees thereof, and on the relative advices sent to the paying officers.

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