Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 26

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961 AND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1950.*

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 1901-1961 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1950.

Dated this third day of February, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendments of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) regulations 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.

Loitering in Post Offices.

2. Regulation 4 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting the symbol and figure “ £5 ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Ten dollars ”.

Production of documents.

3. Regulation 5 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “ One guinea ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Two dollars and ten cents ”.

Business outside normal hours.

4. Regulation 8 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) and paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “ One shilling and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Fifteen cents ”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2a.) the words “ One pound ten shillings ” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “ Three dollars ”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazelle on 10th February, 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1933, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 136; 1938, No. 62; 1940, Nos. 101 and 156; 1951, No. 24; 1955, No. 57; 1956, No. 84; 1958, No. 4; 1959, Nos. 86 and 102; and 1963, No. 50.

13671/65.—Price 6d. (5c) 9 25.1.1966

 

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “ One shilling and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Fifteen cents ”.

Interference with property of Postmaster-General.

5. Regulation 8a of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (6.) the words “ Ten shillings ” and “ Ten pounds ” and inserting in their stead the words “ One dollar ” and “ Twenty dollars ”, respectively.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.