Postal Regulations 1927 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 41.

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 on and from the fifteenth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1930.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. LYONS

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 1447, as amended to this date.)

Regulations 228 to 238 inclusive of the Postal Regulations are repealed and the following Regulations inserted in their stead:—

Part XVIII.—Postal Notes.

Hours of issue and payment of Postal Notes.

228. Postal Notes shall be issued and paid at such post offices in the Commonwealth and during such hours as are determined by the Postmaster-General.

Authority to issue and sell.

229. Postal Notes shall be issued and sold only by persons authorized in that behalf by the Postmaster-General.

Unlawful issueor sale:

230. Any person who without lawful authority (proof whereof shall lie upon him) issues or sells a Postal Note shall be guilty of an offence:

Penalty.

Penalty: £50.

Denominations and poundage.

231. The denominations of Postal Notes issued, and the poundage chargeable thereon, shall be as follow:—

Denomination.		Poundage.		Denomination.		Poundage.		Denomination.		Poundage.
s	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
1	0	0	1	4	0	0	1½	7	6	0	2
1	6	0	1	4	6	0	1½	10	0	0	3
2	0	0	1	5	0	0	1½	11	0	0	3
2	6	0	1	5	6	0	2	15	0	0	3
3	0	0	1½	6	0	0	2	20	0	0	3
3	6	0	1½	..		..		..		..

Office of payment and name of payee to be inserted by purchaser, &c.

232. (1) The purchaser of a Postal Note shall insert, in the spaces provided therein for the purpose, the name of the Post Office at which payment is desired and the name of the person to whom the amount is to be paid.

 

(2) Except as hereinafter provided, a Postal Note shall be paid only at the Post Office and to the person named by the purchaser. The payee shall sign the receipt on the face of the Note before payment is made.

(3) If a Postal Note be made payable to a firm or company the ordinary business stamp of the firm or company shall, when request to that effect has been made in writing and approved by the Deputy Postmaster-General, be accepted as a sufficient receipt.

(4) In the event of the removal of the payee to another district, payment may be made at a Post Office other than that specified by the purchaser, subject to the payee producing satisfactory evidence of change of address to the paying officer.

(5) When a Postal Note is made payable in a Capital City and the payee is a resident of a suburb thereof, payment may be made at the Suburban Post Office nearest to the residence of the payee.

(6) If a Postal Note be presented for payment by a person other than the payee, the person presenting the Note shall sign his name on the back thereof. In such case the payee shall, however, have first receipted the Note in the space provided for the purpose.

Repayment to purchaser.

233. Repayment of a Postal Note (but not the poundage thereon) may be made to the purchaser at the office of issue, subject to his identity being established to the satisfaction of the paying officer. The purchaser shall, in such event, sign his name in the space provided on the Note for the payee’s signature and write the word “Remitter” thereunder.

Postal Notes may be crossed.

234. A Postal Note may be crossed for payment through a bank, in which case it shall not be paid unless it be presented by a bank official and bears an impression of the bank’s stamp in addition to the receipt of the payee:

Provided that, should a bank refuse to accept without charge a crossed Postal Note, the Postal Note shall be paid at the office named by the purchaser on presentation by the payee.

Non-liability of Postmaster-General after payment.

235. After a Postal Note has been paid by the Department the Postmaster-General shall not be liable for any further payment whatsoever.

Payment after six months.

236. (1) A Postal Note presented for payment after six months from the last day of the month of issue shall not be paid until reference has been made to the Chief Money Order Office of the State of issue, and shall then be paid only on payment by the payee of a fee equivalent to the amount of the original poundage.

(2) Such fee shall be paid in postage stamps affixed to the face of the Note.

Alterations, erasures, &c., not permitted.

237. If a Postal Note contain any alteration or erasure, or be cut, defaced, or mutilated, payment may be refused.

Supply of information.

238.Subject to an inquiry being instituted within a period not exceeding two years following the date of issue, information regarding the payment of Postal Notes shall, where the denominations and numbers of the Notes are given, he furnished on payment of a fee of 3d. in respect of each Note:

Provided that where the inquiry relates to two or more Notes of the same denomination with consecutive numbers only one fee shall be payable.

 

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