Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 219.

REGULATION 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 following amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation on and from 1st November, 1921.

Dated this twenty-third day of November, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

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

Regulation 276 is amended by omitting the table of rates of commission on money orders and inserting the following table in its stead:—

For orders payable in—

The Commonwealth: 6d. for each £5 or fraction of £5.

Papua, Rabaul (New Guinea), Nauru, Fiji, New Caledonia: 4d. for each £1 or fraction of £1, with minimum of 6d.

For orders payable in or through—

New Zealand: 3d. for each £1 or fraction of £1, with minimum of 6d.

Canada, Ceylon, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, Federated Malay States, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Mauritius, North Borneo, Norway, Solomon Islands, Straits Settlements, Tonga, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom: 6d. for each £1 or fraction of £1, with minimum of 9d.

United States of America (including Hawaii): 9d. for any amount up to £2, and 4d. for each additional £1 or fraction of £1.

Philippine Islands: (a)In the case of amounts not exceeding £1, 7d. for every 2s. or fraction thereof.

(b) In the case of amounts exceeding £1, for each £1, 6s.; and for any odd amount less than £1, 7d. for every 2s. or fraction thereof.

  

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