Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 289.

 

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 thirtieth day of October, 1918.

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 8 of the Post and Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) Wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letters, letter cards or post cards, and insufficiently prepaid packets, posted in the Commonwealth for delivery in places beyond the Commonwealth shall be charged double the deficiency on delivery.

“(3.) If a Deputy Postmaster-General has reason to believe that any person posts wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letters, letter cards, or post cards addressed to places beyond the Commonwealth, he may give notice in writing, calling upon that person to desist, and advising him of the consequences of non-compliance with the notice.

“(4.) If a person who has received a notice in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation, knowingly and without reasonable excuse posts any wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letter, letter card, or post card addressed to any place beyond the Commonwealth he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding Five pounds.

“(5.) Wholly unpaid packets addressed to places beyond the Commonwealth shall not be transmitted.

“(6.) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letter, letter card, or post card means a letter, letter card, or post card in respect of which no postage or insufficient postage has been paid, and ‘ wholly unpaid packets’ has a corresponding meaning; and

(b) the sender of a letter, letter card, or post card shall be deemed to be the person who posted it.”

        

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.