Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 188.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from 1st October, 1925.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1925.

STONEHAVEN,

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.)

Regulation 76 is omitted, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Unpaid or Insufficiently Prepaid Postal Articles.

76. (1) Wholly unpaid postal articles except newspapers and all insufficiently prepaid articles posted in the Commonwealth for delivery therein or for transmission to Papua, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and the following islands in the Pacific, namely:— Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Admiralty Island, &c.), Nauru, Bougainville, and Buka (Solomon Islands), New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea), shall except in cases where the Postmaster-General has allowed payment of the postage payable to be made by the addressee instead of bythe sender, be surcharged double the deficiency and transmitted to the office of destination. Wholly unpaid newspapers shall be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office.

(2) The postage on all postal articles other than letters, letter cards and single post cards posted in Australia for places beyond the Commonwealth other than the places mentioned in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation must be fully prepaid. If the postage be not fully prepaid the article must be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office.

(3) The amount of the surcharge to be made on wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letters, letter cards and single post cards,

C.14495.—Price 3d.

 

transmitted to places beyond the Commonwealth shall be doublethe deficiency in postage and such surcharge shall be indicated in francs and centimes calculated as follows:—

(a)In the case of articles addressed to places in the British Empire, New Hebrides, Banks and Torres Islands, 1d.=10 centimes.

(b) Inthe case of articles addressed to other places beyond the Commonwealth, by application of the formula approved by the Postmaster-General.

(4) If a Deputy Postmaster-General has reason to believe that any person posts wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid postal articles addressed to a place beyond the Commonwealth, he may give notice in writing calling upon that person to desist, and advising him of the consequence of non-compliance with the notice.

(5) If a person who has received a notice in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation knowingly and without reasonable excuse posts any wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid postal article addressed to any place beyond the Commonwealth, he shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £5.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)wholly unpaid or insufficiently prepaid postal article means a postal article in respect of which no postage, or insufficient postage has been paid; and

(b) the person who posts a postal article shall be deemed to be the sender of the article.

(7)The amount to be collected on postal articles surcharged in French currency received from places beyond the Commonwealth for delivery shall be calculated as follows:—

(a)In the case of articles from places within the British Empire, New Hebrides, Banks and Torres Islands, at the rate of 10 centimes=1d.

(b) In the case of articles, from other places beyond the Commonwealth—by application of the formula approved by the Postmaster-General.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer Melbourne.