Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1921. No. 20.

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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 forthwith.

Dated this twentieth day of January, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for 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 234 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

Demurrage.

234. (1) Where any parcel or other postal article (a) on the contents of which Customs duty is payable or (b) imported through the post for commercial purposes (whether liable to Customs duty or not) remains undelivered for more than seventy-two hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) after the posting to the addressee of a notification of its arrival, demurrage shall be charged on the parcel or other postal article at the rate of Twopence for every twenty-four hours or portion thereof during which it remains undelivered after such seventy-two hours.

     

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