Postal Regulations 1935 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*
I, THE
ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with
the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following
Regulation under the
Dated this Fifteenth
day of June , 1938.
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
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Amendment of the Postal Regulations.
Regulation 8 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(3.) An applicant for the withdrawal of one or more postal articles before despatch from the office of posting shall, at the time of lodging the application, pay a search fee of One shilling.
“(4.) Where the withdrawal of more than one postal article is applied for before despatch from the office of posting and the withdrawal occasions a search at more than one point in that office, the applicant shall, before the return of the articles, pay, in addition to the fee prescribed in the last preceding sub-regulation, a fee of One shilling in respect of each point more than one at which a search is necessary.
“(5.) Where application is made for the withdrawal of one or more postal articles after despatch from the office of posting, the applicant shall at the time of lodging the application pay a search fee of One shilling in respect of each article, and, in addition, the cost of any necessary telegrams or telephone messages.
“(6.) The fees and costs referred to in sub-regulations (3.) and (5.) of this regulation shall be retained by the Postmaster-General whether or not the effort to intercept the article or articles is successful.
* Notified in the
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; and by 1938 No. 2.
2426.—8/6.5.1938.—Price 3d.
“(7.) The postage or registration fee (if any) paid on a postal article which is returned in accordance with this regulation shall not be refunded, but if the stamps affixed to any such article have not been impressed with an official postmark at the time it is found, the article shall be returned with the stamps uncancelled.
“(8.) Where a fee for air mail transmission or for express messenger service has been paid on a postal article which is returned in accordance with this regulation and the stamps denoting any such payment have been cancelled, the amount of that fee may be refunded if no portion of the air mail transmission or express messenger service has been effected.
“(9.) For the purposes of this regulation, the expression ‘office of posting’, in relation to a postal article, means the post office at which the article was posted, or, if it was posted at a street letter receiver or other receptacle, the post office to which it was conveyed, or would, in the ordinary course, have been conveyed, for the purpose of postmarking and despatch.”.
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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