Post Office Act 1862 (SA)

ANNO VICERIM0 QUINTO ET VICESIMO SEXTO

V ICTORIB REGINB.

A.D. 1862.

No. 10.

An ACS to enable the Postmaster-Genera! to Issue Money O~ders

in the Colony oJ' South Az~straZia,

[ Asscnted to, 21st October, 1862.1

W HEREAS it is desirable to enable the public, under due regula- Preamble. tions, to remit small sums of money through the Post Oflice-

Be it therefore Exacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province

of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and Hou-se of Assembly of the said Province, in this prc- sent Parliament assembled, as follovvs:

The Governor may from time to time, with the advice and consent of the Executive ~oun'cil, make such regulations as shall be needed may make regula-	Governor in Council
tions relating to

1.

relating to money orders and to the persons by or through whom, moncy ordels, and may repeal, &alter, or

and the places where, and the times when, and the rnanner and	thasame,
form in which, and the restrictions as to number and amount under
which money orders shall be issued, and to the persons in favor of
whom, and the places where, and the times when, and the manner
in which all money orders issued shall be payable, and to the length
of time during which money orders shall be currcnt, and after which they shall become void, and to the circumstances under which the Postmaster-General may refund the whole or part of the money paid for any money order, and under which he shall cease to bc liable to pay the moncy made payable under any money order, and to the manner of forwarding messages or advices through the electric telegraph, or otherwise of transmitting moneys and of managing credits, accounts, and other matters nnd things necessary to be forwarded, transmitted, or inanaged in reference to moiiey orders, and relating to every other matter or thing necessary to be re-

R gulated

pla ted or done for perfecting a system whereby the public may be enabled promptly and safely to remit small sums of money through the Post Office: And the Governor, with the advice and conscnt of the Executive Conncil, may such regulations, from time to time, alter, repeal, remodel, vary, re-establish, or otherwise deal with as may be found expedient; and such regulations shall be binding and con- clusive upon the persons in favor of whom such money orders shall be issued, and the payees thereof, and all persons interested through or claiming under them, and upon all other persons whomsoever, and shall have the same force and effect in all rcspects as if enacted by this Act, and no action, suit, or other proceeding at lam, or in equity, shall be brought, instituted, or commenced against the Postmaster- General, or any officer of the Post Office, or any other person whom- soever for or by reason, or in consequence of any such regulations, or of any compliance therewith or othcmrise in relation thercto, or for or

by reason or in consequence of the refunding or the payment of the

amount or part of the amount of any money order or any poundage therefor being refused or delayed, or on account of accidental neglect, or omission, or mistake, or of any other cause whatsoever without fraud or w X d misbehaviour on the p& of any person chargeable therewith.

Order8" be

insued for more than 2. No money order shall be granted for a larger sum 'than Ten

$10.	Pounds.
Poatmaster-General

may demand and 3. The Postmaster-General shall demand and receive for the

receive rates of	use of Her Majesty, in respect of Ill1 rnoncy orders issued, such rates of poundage as the Governor, with the advicc and consent of
the Executive Council, shall from time to time order, and such rates
af poundage shall be demandable and receivable by the Postmaster- General, and shall be applied when received to the same purposes
and in the same manner as all other moneys received by the Post-
master-General are by law: Provided th& no poundage, nor any

No ponndage nor

post to be demanded impost or charge whatsoever, shall be demandable or receivable by

until after publi~ation the Postmaster-General or any other person under h i s Act, in respect

Of Order of Gownor* of any money order to he issued, until after an order of the Governor ordering the same shall have been published in the Government	Gazette*
peme unlawhlly	4. Any person who shall unlawfully issue any money order with a shall be liable to bc imprisoned at the discretion of the Court for any term not exceeding three years, with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement.

bsuine lfones orders fraudulent intent shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof

to be p d t y of a

felony.

Money orders to be 5. Every money order shall be deemed a valuable security"

rities within themean- deem& valuablesecu- within thgrneaning of the Act No. 4, 22 and 23 Victoria, intitulkd

inn of 3 0. 4. 2 2 and An Act for consolidating the Statute Law in force in South 23%~. Australia, relating to ~nd~ctable Offences against Property, by

Larceny and other offences connected therewith."

6. Every

6. Every person who shall with fraudulent intent send, or cause Persons aending frau- dulent measage guilty

to be sent, any message or advice through the electric telegraph or of a miderneanor.

otherwise concerning any money order, or any money, or poundage due or receivable from or by any person, in respect of any money order, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to be punished with fine or imprisonment, or both, at

the discretion of the Court, such imprisonment not to exceed three

years, and to be with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement, and such fine not to exceed One Hundred Pounds.

7. This Act and the Post Office Act of 1861 shall be read and p&:Etfz F&

construed together as one Act, this A C ~.

I n the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

I), DAILY, Governor,

Adelaide : Printed by authority, by W. C, Cox, Government Printer, Victoria-squaro.