Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 281.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

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 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixth day of December, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

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

Regulation 82 of the Post and Telegraph Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

82. (1) The proprietor, printer or publisher of any newspaper as defined by section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916 may register it at the General Post Office of any State subject to the conditions set out in this regulation.

(2) The application for registration must be made in writing, and must contain a description of the newspaper to be registered, and show at what intervals the newspaper is published.

(3) Three copies of the latest issue of the newspaper and one copy of each of the two last preceding issues must be forwarded with the application together with a fee of 5s.

(4) The following statutory declarations must also be forwarded with the application:—

(a) a statutory declaration by the applicant declaring—

(i) that the publication is printed and published within the Commonwealth for sale, and not for free distribution to any great extent;

(ii) that at least 75 per centum of the copies issued are sold to bonâ fide subscribers who have ordered the paper or handed or posted to persons for bonâ fide sale, and

(iii) whether or not any previous application has been made for registration of the publication under the same or any other title; and

 

(b) two statutory declarations by independent persons in the trade (such as publishers and newsagents) who are not in any way interested in the proprietorship or printing of, and are not subscribers to, the publication, declaring—

(i) that the declarant personally knows and recognises the publication as a newspaper in the generally accepted sense,

(ii) that to the best of his knowledge and belief the publication is known and recognised by purchasers thereof as a newspaper in the generally accepted sense,

(iii) that the publication is not, to the best of his knowledge and belief, recognised as a magazine, review, or other similar publication, and

(iv) that he is neither the proprietor nor the printer of, nor a subscriber to, the said publication, and is not in any way interested in the proprietorship or printing thereof.

  

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