Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 305.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

I,SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, 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 14th day of November, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the 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 by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 332.)

Regulation 355 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Mode of Delivery of Telegrams.

355. (1) Telegrams shall be delivered according to their address—

(a)To the addressee or (except when instructions to the contrary have been given) to some person at the residence of the addressee.

(b)To the addressee or his duly appointed representative—at the post office; or at the telegraph office.

Provided that telegrams relating to horse racing or betting on races or sports shall not be accepted at any telegraph office, if addressed to any post office, poste restante or telegraph office to be called for, or if addressed care of any person employed in an official capacity at any such post office, poste restante or telegraph office.

(2) If the door be not opened at the address given, or if the messenger finds no one who will consent to take in the telegram, notice shall be left at such address, and the telegram returned to the telegraph office, to be delivered to the addressee or his nominee upon application. If not applied for in the meantime the telegram shall be sent out a second time when a messenger passes the address given.

 

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

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