Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 44.

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 forthwith.

Dated this thirteenth day of March, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 313 is amended by omitting the second paragraph thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

(2) Figures will be accepted in the text of telegrams, each group of figures being counted at the rate of five figures per word. Figures in the address and signature of a telegram shall also be charged for at the rate of five figures per word. The sign “&” must always be transmitted as “and”.

2. Regulation 323 is amended by omitting the words “(b) a group of Arabic figures”.

3. Regulation 370 is repealed.

 

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