Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 133.

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 fourth day of June, 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.)

Regulation 172 is repealed, and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

172. (1) The charge for a private mail-bag made up and despatched from a post-office by mailman shall be £1 per annum if made up and despatched not more than thrice a week, or £2 per annum if made up and despatched more than thrice but not more than six times a week, or £4 per annum if made up and despatched more than six times a week; provided, however, that the charge for making up bags conveyed from and to a post-office by a private messenger instead of by a mailman shall be £1 per annum if made up not more than once daily, or £2per annum if made up more than once daily. The charge in each case shall be payable in advance.

(2) For private mail-bags which are conveyed by railway the actual cost of conveyance by railway must be paid where required by the Postmaster-General, in addition to the charge prescribed in sub-regulation (1).

     

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