Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 129.

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REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth 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.)

1. Regulation 3 is repealed.

2. Regulation 14 is omitted and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

14. (1) Second Class Mail Matter must not have the character of actual or personal correspondence, nor shall anything having such character be enclosed therewith or appear thereon or on the cover thereof.

(2) Second Class Mail Matter must not be closed against inspection, except in the case of those articles which, under the conditions governing the transmission of Second Class Mail Matter and Registered Articles, may be closed against inspection.

(3) Every article posted as Second Class Mail Matter which is found to contravene any of the provisions of this regulation, shall be treated as an insufficiently prepaid letter.

3. Regulation 56 is omitted and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

56. (1) Third Class Mail Matter must not be closed against inspection, nor shall there be enclosed therewith or appear thereon or on the cover thereof anything having the character of actual or personal correspondence.

(2) Every article posted as Third Class Mail Matter which is found to contravene any of the provisions of this regulation shall be treated as an insufficiently prepaid letter.

4. Regulation 186 is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “or for parcels;”

(b) by omitting the word “a” and inserting in its stead the words “any such”.

C.10246.—Price 3d.

 

5. Regulation 226 is omitted and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

226. A parcel may not contain a package intended for delivery at an address other than that borne by the parcel itself. Should a parcel contain any such enclosure it may be surcharged, on delivery double the postage which the enclosure would have cost if sent separately.

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