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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 181.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulations to come into operation forthwith as provisional Regulations.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended by Statutory Rules 1914, No. 73.)

1. Regulation 276 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

276. The rates of commission chargeable for the issue of money orders, except as prescribed in Regulations 298a and 298b shall be:—

For Sums—
If payable in—	Not exceeding £2.		Exceeding £2, but not exceeding £5.		Exceeding £5, but not exceeding £7.		Exceeding £7, but not exceeding £10.		Exceeding £10, but not exceeding £12.		Exceeding £12, but not exceeding £15.		Exceeding £15, but not exceeding £17.		Exceeding £17, but not exceeding £20.
s.	d	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
The Commonwealth....	0	6	0	6	1	0	1	0	1	6	1	0	2	0	2	0
Papua.........................	0	9	0	9	1	6	1	6	2	3	2	6	3	0	3	0
New Zealand and Fiji..	0	6	1	0	1	6	2	0	2	6	3	0	3	6	4	0
United Kingdom, other British Possessions, and Foreign Countries	6d. for any amount up to £2, and 3d. for each additional pound or fraction of a pound.

C. 12787—Price 3d.

2. The following Regulation is inserted after Regulation 298a:—

298a. (1) Money orders may be issued by District Paymasters of the Defence Department for the purpose of paying allotments of military pay. The commission to be paid on each order, irrespective of the amount of the order, shall be Twopence halfpenny.

(2) The Defence Department shall pay the postage, where payable, on such money orders, when sent to the payees thereof, but no postage shall be payable on the relative advices sent to the paying officers.

 

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