Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1921. No. 139.

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 following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-first day of July, 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.)

1. The following regulation is inserted after regulation 275:—

275a. Money orders shall be issued and sold only by persons authorized in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Any person who without authority from the Postmaster-General (proof whereof shall lie upon that person) issues or sells a money order shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding £50.

2. The following regulation is inserted after regulation 299:—

299a. Postal notes shall be issued and sold only by persons authorized in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Any person who without authority from the Postmaster-General (proof whereof shall lie upon that person) issues or sells a postal note shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding £50.

    

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