Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1920. No. 181.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventh day of October, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 46 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

46. (1) Applications for registration by the Postmaster-General of laboratories to which bacteriological or pathological specimens may be sent for examination must be made on the prescribed form, copies of which may be obtained from the Deputy Postmaster-General of a State.

(2) Bacteriological or pathological specimens addressed to laboratories registered by the Postmaster-General may be accepted for transmission by packet post, under the following conditions, viz.:—

(a) On the outside of every such packet there must be written or printed the words “Specimen for Bacteriological or Pathological Examination.”

(b) The liquid or substance forwarded for examination must be enclosed in a receptacle hermetically sealed, which receptacle must itself be placed in a strong wooden or metal case, in such a way that it cannot shift about, and with a sufficient quantity of some absorbent material (such as sawdust or cotton wool) so packed about the receptacle as absolutely to prevent any possible leakage from the packet in the event of damage to the receptacle.

(c) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (d) the packet must be registered and not dropped into a letter-box nor sent by parcel post. Any packet of the kind found in the parcel post, or any packet of the kind, whether registered or not, found in the post, not packed as directed, shall be deemed to be posted in contravention of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, and dealt with accordingly.

 

(d) In eases where specimens (throat swabs) arc not obtained in time to permit the sender to pack them and hand the packot in at a post office for registration, on account of the post office having closed for the day, such, specimens may be transmitted by ordinary pest, provided they are properly packed in accordance with this Regulation, and the packet bears an indorsement by the sender that the specimen enclosed was obtained too late to permit the sender to hand the packet in at a post office for registration.

(3) Any person who sends by post bacteriological or pathological specimens, otherwise than as provided by these Regulations, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds.

(4) A packet containing any bacteriological or pathological specimens shall not be accepted for transmission, or, if found in the post, shall not be delivered unless addressed to a laboratory which has been registered by the Postmaster-General in accordance with this Regulation.

 

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