STATUTORY RULES.
1960. No. 103.
REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.
Dated
this 29th day of December, 1960.
DUNROSSIL
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
Amendments
of the Postal Regulations.
Transmission
as articles.
1. Regulation 19 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in
its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(1.) A
notice or other document relating to a lottery or other scheme of chance, other
than an art union, shall not be accepted for transmission at the rate of
postage specified in item 4 of the First Schedule to the Rates Act.”.
Articles
for use of the blind transmissible free of postage.
2. Regulation 62 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “literature for the
blind” the words “, aids for the teaching of Braille to the blind”.
Recordings
for use of the blind transmissible free of postage.
3.
Regulation 62a of the Postal
Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting all the
words before paragraph (a) and inserting in their stead the words “Goods
for the use of the blind consisting of any form of speech recording of
literature may be sent by post free of charge if—”; and
(b)
by omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following
paragraph:—
“(b) the goods are packed in a manner approved
by the Postmaster-General;”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th December, 1960.
Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the
Postal Regulations, see footnote
to Statutory Rules 1960, No. 75.
7513/60.—Price 3d. 10/18.10.1960.
Franking machine impressions: refunds.
4. Regulation 76 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of
sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(b) The application must be presented within
three months after the date of the impression in respect of which a refund is
claimed.”.
Purpose
for which franking machines may be used.
5. Regulation 77 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) the words
“except parcels for places beyond the Commonwealth”.
Redirection
of postal articles.
6. Regulation 99 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “,
and shall state the places from which correspondence is expected”.
Repurchase
of stamps in payment for licences.
7. Regulation 117 of the Postal Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting the words
“under the Broadcasting Act 1942-1954”
and inserting in their stead the words “or a television viewer’s licence under
the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1960”; and
(b)
by adding at the end thereof the words “or a television viewer’s licence”.
Licences
to sell stamps.
8.Regulation 119 of the Postal Regulations is amended
by omitting sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) and inserting in their stead the
following sub-regulations:—
“(1.) A
Director may grant to a person a licence to sell postage stamps at a place, or
places, specified in the licence.
“(2.) A
Director may, at any time, revoke a licence to sell postage stamps.”.
Licensed
vendors to exhibit notice.
9.Regulation 120 of the Postal Regulations is amended
by omitting sub-regulation (2.).
Purchase
of supplies by vendors.
10. Regulation 122 of the
Postal Regulations is repealed.
Acknowledgment
of receipt.
11. Regulation 174 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “,
and shall affix to the form postage stamps to the value of Ninepence in payment
of the fee”.
Postage
on parcels must be prepaid.
12. Regulation 187 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words
“the addressee” and inserting in their stead the words “a person other than the
sender”.
Posting
of parcels.
13. Regulation 192 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1.) the words “the addressee” and inserting in their stead the words “a
person other than the sender”.
Acknowledgment
of delivery.
14. Regulation 196 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the words “and shall affix to such
form postage stamps in payment of the fee”.
15. Regulation 197 of the
Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its
stead:—
Parcels
containing valuables.
“197.—(1.)
Where a parcel found to contain valuables is to be returned to the sender, the
parcel shall be sent to the Dead Letter Office and, from the Dead Letter
Office, returned to the sender.
“(2.) A
parcel referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation shall be transmitted as
if it were a parcel that had been accepted for registration under regulation
157 of these Regulations.
“(3.) In
this regulation, ‘valuables’ includes cheques, money orders, postal notes and
bank drafts.”.
Demurrage.
16. Regulation 205 of the
Postal Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (5.), after the
word “undeliverable”, the words “, and in the case of postal articles (other
than parcels) redirected to a destination beyond the Commonwealth”.
Payments
to masters of vessels.
17.—(1.)
Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the table and
inserting in its stead the following table:—
Conveyance
of— | Rate
of Payment. |
Letters and
post cards in harbours and on rivers | Eightpence per pound |
Mails (other than letters and
post cards) in harbours and on rivers
| One shilling and fourpence per
hundredweight |
Mails to places within the
Commonwealth otherwise than in harbours and on rivers
| Ten pounds per ton by weight |
Mails to places
beyond the Commonwealth— |
Where the mails are to be
conveyed up to three thousand miles
| Nineteen pounds sixteen
shillings and two-pence per ton by weight
|
Where the mails are to be
conveyed over three thousand miles and up to six thousand miles
| Thirty-eight pounds nine
shillings and eightpence per ton by weight
|
Where the mails are to be
conveyed over six thousand miles
| Forty-five pounds and ninepence
per ton by weight |
(2.) This
regulation shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1961.
By
Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.