Postal Regulations 1935 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 21.

 

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 sixteenth day of March, 1959.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE POSTAL REGULATIONS. 

Commencement.

1. Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1959.

2. Regulation 91A of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Special delivery.

“91A.—(1.) The sender or the addressee of a postal article—

(a) in respect of which postage at the rate prescribed for letters by the Rates Act has been prepaid; and

(b)that is addressed for delivery from a post office from which a special delivery service is available,

may, upon payment of the prescribed fee and upon compliance with such other conditions as the Postmaster-General determines, obtain, during such hours as the Postmaster-General determines, the special delivery of the postal article.

“(2.) The prescribed fee, for the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, is—

(a) where the number of postal articles to be delivered to the one address in the one delivery does not exceed three—One shilling and threepence for each article;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th March, 1959.

 Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Postal Regulations, See footnote   to Statutory Rules 1958, No. .

473/59.—PRICE 3D. 9/10.2.1959.

 

(b)where the number of postal articles to be delivered to the one address in the one delivery exceeds three but does not exceed six—One shilling and threepence for each of the first three articles and Ninepence for each article in excess of three; and

(c) where the number of postal articles to be delivered to the one address in the one delivery exceeds six—One shilling and threepence for each of the first three articles, Ninepence for each of the second three articles and Sixpence for each article in excess of six.

“(3.) Where the addressee of a postal article requests the special delivery of the article after the arrival of a specified mail at a post office, and the article does not arrive in that mail, a fee of One shilling and threepence is payable for informing the addressee that the article did not arrive in that mail.”.

 

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