Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 11.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from 1st March, 1925.

Dated this fourteenth day of January, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 92 is omitted, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“92. (1) Inquiries concerning the alleged non-delivery of any postal article will be undertaken provided (a) sufficient time has elapsed to enable the postal article to reach its destination in the ordinary course of post; and (b) the person desiring the inquiry to be made furnishes reasonable evidence that the article was posted and has not been delivered. The person requesting that the inquiry be made shall enter on the form provided for the purpose the particulars required in connexion with the article.

(2) Where the inquiry relates to a registered postal article or parcel addressed to or posted in a place beyond the Commonwealth, the person requesting that the inquiry be made shall affix to the form referred to in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, a postage stamp in payment of a fee of 3d., which postage stamp the postmaster or other official shall cancel in the ordinary way. Should it be found that delay in delivery is attributable to the Department, the inquiry fee shall be refunded.

Provided that if the inquiry relate to a registered postal article or parcel upon which a fee has been paid for acknowledgment of delivery, no inquiry fee shall be charged under this regulation.

2. Regulation 93 is repealed.

3. Regulation 213 is amended by omitting the words “in advance, at the time of registration”.

4. Regulation 223 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) thereof the words “at the time of posting”.

 

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