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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 79.

 

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 nineteenth day of May 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.)

1. Regulation 191 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

191. A notice must be exhibited in some conspicuous place in front of the premises licensed, with the words “Licensed to sell postage stamps” painted in letters at least 1 inch in height, and of proportionate breadth. Stamps must be procurable at any time that the licensed vendor’s place of business is open to the public, Sunday excepted.

2. Regulation 192 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

192. Licensed venders must pay cash for stamps purchased, and may be allowed a commission not exceeding 2½ per cent., in stamps, on purchases of not less than £1 in value at any one time, but they must not use postage stamps for the payment of accounts, nor for remittances. The amount of commission allowed to any licensed vendor on the stamps purchased under any licence held by him shall not exceed in the case of each licence the sum of Thirty shillings (30s.) in any week.

Provided that in cases where several licences are held by one person, the premises licensed shall be grouped, according to the localities in which they are situated, in such a way as to ensure that stamps shall be supplied to the licensee from the smallest number of offices compatible with due regard to facility and promptness of supply. The commission in such cases shall be limited to Thirty shillings (30s.) per week at any one post-office, and supplies of postage stamps shall only be obtainable from each post-office once a day.

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3. The following Regulation is inserted after Regulation 192:—

192a. Applications for the purchase of supplies of postage stamps must be made on the proper form. No licensed vendor shall be allowed to obtain, on commission, supplies of postage stamps more frequently than once a day.

4. The following Regulation is inserted after Regulation 195:—

195a. A licensed vendor must keep a book containing particulars of stamp sales, and must produce such book to an authorized officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department when required.

 

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