Postal Regulations 1935 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 38.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.

Dated this tenth day of July, 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Postal Regulations. 

Postal articles addressed to the householder.

Regulation 90 of the Postal Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “newspapers”, the words “and articles which the Postmaster-General has directed, in pursuance of sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, be not accepted for delivery under this regulation”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) The Postmaster-General may direct that postal articles which contain notices or information relating to lotteries, art unions or schemes of chance shall not be accepted under this regulation for delivery in a part of the Commonwealth specified in the direction, and any such articles which are tendered for delivery in a part of the Commonwealth so specified shall not be accepted.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1957.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80 and 95; 1936, Nos. 50 and 113; 1937, Nos. 13, 35, 37 and 48; 1938, Nos. 2, 55, 94 and 100; 1939, Nos. 44, 57 and 66; 1940, Nos. 1 and 232; 1942, Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 554; 1943, Nos. 57, 94, 122, 237 and 286; 1944, No. 145; 1945, No. 194; 1946, Nos. 131 and 149; 1947, Nos. 91 and 114; 1948, No. 62; 1949, Nos. 23, 30, 38 and 106; 1950, Nos. 49 and 93; 1951, Nos. 22 and 72; 1952, No. 38; 1953, No. 81; 1954, No. 52; 1955, No. 28; and 1956, Nos. 31 and 67.

2851/57.—Price 3d. 10/20.5.1957.

 

“(5.) Where postal articles addressed in the manner referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation are tendered for delivery by post in a part of the Commonwealth so specified by the Postmaster-General for the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, the postmaster or other officer to whom, the postal articles are tendered may refuse to accept the postal articles for transmission by post unless the person tendering the postal articles satisfies him that the postal articles do not contain notices or information relating to lotteries, art unions or schemes of chance.”.

 

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