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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 233.

 

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 first day of December, Ono thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

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, as amended by Statutory Rules 1915, No. 3).

Regulation 128 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

128. (1) Correspondence must not be posted addressed Poste Restante or to a post office to be called for, to a person to whom correspondence has been so addressed for a period of six months, or, in cases where an application for re-direction has been granted in accordance with sub-regulation (2) of this Regulation, for a period of twelve months, and shall, if received at a post office after the prescribed period has elapsed, be deemed to have been posted in contravention of the Regulations.

(2) Where an addressee has had correspondence addressed Poste Restante or to a post office to be called for, for a period of six months he may, upon making application to that effect, have correspondence so addressed re-directed to one address for a further period of six months, but upon the expiration of the further period of six months no further application for re-direction of the correspondence shall be granted.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulations (1) and (2) of this Regulation, in cases where any traveller or tourist satisfies the Deputy Postmaster-General as to his bona fides, the Deputy Postmaster-General may make such necessary arrangements as will meet the necessities of the particular case.

 

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