Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 23.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

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 1901-1916, to come into operation on 2nd April, 1923.

Dated this seventh day of March, 1923.

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 Regulation 258 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

258. Any article that can be sent by parcels post may be accepted for transmission as a value-payable parcel, provided it is accompanied by a certificate that it is sent in execution of a bonâ fide order. Letters may also be sent as value-payable parcels if prepaid at the letter rate of postage and handed to the parcel clerk at the counter in the same manner as in the case of parcels, provided the letter rate is not less than the parcels post rate would be if the letters were sent by parcels post.

2. Regulation 262 is amended by omitting the word “prescribed” and inserting the word “proper” in its stead.

3. Regulation 263 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

263. The registration form, and the value-payable parcel label which must be affixed to the parcel, must be filled in by the sender and not by a postal official, and postal officials must not alter such forms after they have been filled in.

4. Regulation 264 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

264. (1) In addition to the ordinary postage, which must be prepaid by postage stamps affixed to the parcel, commission on the amount specified by the sender to be collected from the addressee

C.1883.—Price 3d.

 

must be prepaid in postage stamps affixed to the value-payable parcel label in accordance with the following scale of charges:—

Amount to be collected on each parcel.				Rate of Commission.
s.	d.
Not exceeding 10s.....................................................								0	9
Over 10s. hut not exceeding £1..................................								1	0
Over £1 but not exceeding £2....................................								1	6
Over £2 but not exceeding £3....................................								1	9
For each additional £1 or fraction thereof...................							3d. additional

(2) The commission charge includes the registration fee, and covers the service involved in the collection of the amount from the addressee, and payment of that amount to the sender of the parcel.

5. Regulation 265 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

265. If after posting a value-payable pared the sender desires to have the parcel delivered to the addressee free of all charges he must make application in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General, or to the postmaster at the office at which the parcel was posted, and must pay the post of any telegrams, telephone messages, or letters rendered necessary to give effect to the application. If the foregoing conditions he complied with the application will be granted, provided it is received in time to permit communication to he made to the delivering office before delivery has been effected.

6. Regulations 263a, 268, 269 and 272a are repealed.

7. Regulation 272 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

272. (1) Upon receipt of a written application from the sender, together with an undertaking to pay the prescribed fee, particulars of the delivery of a value-payable parcel and of the payment made thereon, or a list of undelivered value-payable parcels all of the amounts outstanding thereon, will be compiled, and, on payment of a fee of Threepence for each parcel in respect of which inquiry is made, furnished to the applicant. On payment of the fee, postage stamps to the amount of the fee must be affixed to the communication from the sender and cancelled in the ordinary way.

(2) If the Department, in any particular instance, is at fault the fee shall be refunded.

 

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