POST
AND TELEGRAPH ACT.
POSTAL
REGULATIONS.
Statutory
Rules 1963, No. 35(a)
Keys.
1.
Regulation 133 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (5.) the words “If the keys are not so returned the person who
rented the box shall be liable to be charged the rental fee for the box until
the keys are returned.”.
Refund on relinquishment of private box.
2.
Regulation 137 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1.) the words “, on return by him to the Department of all the
keys of the box,”.
Payments to masters of vessels.
3.—(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
or on rivers | Eight pence per pound |
Mails (other
than letters and post cards) in harbours or on
rivers
| One shilling and fourpence per hundredweight |
Mails to
places within the Commonwealth, otherwise than in harbours
or on rivers
| Ten pounds per ton by weight |
Mails to
places beyond the Commonwealth— |
where the
mails are to be conveyed not more than 2,999 miles
| Twenty-one
pounds eighteen shillings and twopence per ton by
weight
|
where the
mails are to be conveyed more than 2,999 miles but not more than 6,000 miles
| Forty-two
pounds eleven shillings and threepence per ton by
weight
|
where the
mails are to be conveyed more than 6,000 miles
| Forty-nine
pounds sixteen shillings and threepence per ton by
weight
|
(2.) Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations, as
amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, applies to and in relation to the
conveyance of mails on and after the first day of January, 1963.
(a) Made under the Post
and Telegraph Act 1901–1961 on 25th April, 1963; notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette