Post and Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1921. No. 18.

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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, noting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following 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 ofthe Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913.

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

Regulation 158 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting the following sub-regulations in its stead:—

(2) In the case of private boxes in country towns rented by persons not served by two letter deliveries by postmen on at least five days in each week, exclusive of holidays, the fees shall be—

For a large box, £1 10s. per annum.

For a medium-sized box, £1 per annum.

For a small box, 10s, per annum

payable in advance.

(2a) The Postmaster-General may refuse to provide private boxes at a country town in which there are not at least ten persons who are prepared to rent private boxes at the post-office in that town for at least one year.

    

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