Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 123.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency, the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-first day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

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Regulation 5 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Holiday Arrangements.

5. On Christmas Day and Good Friday the same arrangements shall be observed as on Sunday; and on other Public Holidays the arrangements shall be as follow:—

—	New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, King’s Birthday, Boxing Day, and Holidays proclaimed throughout the Commonwealth, or appointed as proclaimed in any State or Part of a State, and generally observed in that State or Part as Public Holidays.	Other Days or Half-days appointed or proclaimed as Holidays in any State or Part of a State, but not generally observed in that State or Part as Holidays.
General Post Office—
The Delivery Office, Registration Office, and office for sale of postage stamps to be open	From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m............................	As on ordinary days
Private boxes to be open as usual.
The country mails usually despatched in the afternoon and evening, also the coastwise, Inter-State, and foreign mails, to close	At 10 a.m. unless otherwise specially intimated	As on ordinary days
The first delivery only to be effected by letter carriers.
The Parcels Office to be open...............................	From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m............................	As on ordinary days
The Money Order Office to be open	From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m............................	As on ordinary days
The Chief Telegraph Office to be open	As on ordinary days...............................	As on ordinary days
All other Post and Telegraph Offices for all classes of postal and telegraphic business	9 a.m. to 10 a.m.....................................	As on ordinary days
The first delivery only to be made by letter-carriers.
The iron pillar receivers and letter-boxes in the capital cities and suburbs will be cleared	Only at the ordinary hours in the morning, or alternatively in the evening, as may be arranged	As on ordinary days

Note—If British and Foreign mails arrive, or are despatched, on any of the above-mentioned holidays, special arrangements must be made to suit the public convenience.

 

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

C.7044.—Price 3d.