Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 144.

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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-sixth day of August, 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.)

Regulation 176 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

(4) Any letter received from a place beyond the Commonwealth bearing on its cover a label affixed by the sender indicating that the letter contains an enclosure which is or may be subject to Customs duty and also that the letter may be officially opened shall be opened by a postal official for examination by an officer of the Customs and the duty thereon as assessed by the officer of the Customs shall be paid before the letter is delivered to the addressee.

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Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C. 11927.—Price 3d.