Postal Regulations 1935 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 286.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1934.*

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 1901–1934.

Dated this first day of December, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Postal Regulations. 

Regulation 137 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Refund on relinquishment of private box

“137.—(1.) Where a person relinquishes the use of a private box before the expiration of the period for which the prescribed fee has been paid, he shall, on return by him to the Department of all the keys of the box, be refunded such part of the fee paid by him (less one shilling) as is attributable to the period remaining after the end of the quarter during which the box is relinquished:

Provided that a refund shall not be made to a person in respect of any period commencing earlier than twelve months after the date on which the box was first rented by him.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘quarter’ means any period of three months commencing on the first day of the months of January, April, July or October in any year”.

 

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

 Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80, 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; and 1943, Nos. 57, 94 and 122.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

6174.—Price 3d. 20/12.10.1943.