Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 47.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901—1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1914, No. 17.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth ofAustralia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, namely:—

Amendment of Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348)

to come into operation on the 30th day of May, 1914.

Dated this 8th day of May, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

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Amendment of Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348.)

Regulation 104, under this head, is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

104. If the sender of a registered postal article or the sender of a parcel desire inquiry made respecting its disposal, he shall enter, in a form provided for the purpose, both his own name and address, and the name and address of the person to whom the registered postal article or parcel was sent, and he must also, where the inquiry relates to a registered postal article, affix to the form a postage stamp in payment of the fee of 2½d., or, where the inquiry relates to a parcel, affix to the form a postage stamp in payment of the fee of 2d., which postage stamp the postmaster, or other officer, must cancel in the ordinary way. Should any delay in delivery be attributable to the Post Office, the fee shall be refunded. If a fee has been paid for acknowledgement of delivery, no charge for the inquiry shall be made.

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