Postal Regulations 1927 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1928. No. 62.

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 July, 1928.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 144.)

1. The proviso to Regulation 70 is amended by inserting after the word “articles” the words “posted in the Commonwealth.”

2. Regulation 181 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting the following in its stead:—

(1) If the sender of a parcel makes written application, in the required form, for the return of the parcel to him prior to its despatch from the office at which it was posted, such parcel shall, upon payment of a fee of One shilling, be handed back to the sender, and subject to the surrender to the Department at the time the parcel is so returned of the stamps affixed to the parcel in prepayment of postage, the postage paid shall be refunded to the sender.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

1302.—Price 3d.