Postal Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 149.

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REGULATIONS 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 regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934

Dated this twenty-third day of October, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

D. CAMERON

Postmaster-General.

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Amendments of the Postal Regulations.  

Preparation of articles for registered post.

1. Regulation 162 of the Postal Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the word “compensation”, the words “for loss of the contents”.

Compensations payable for loss, damage or rifling of postal articles.

2. Regulation 165 of the Postal Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the word “respect” (first occurring), the words “of loss or rifling of the contents”; and

(b)by omitting from that sub-section the words “postal articles”and inserting in their steadthe words “damage to the contents of any postal article, whether sealed or unsealed”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th October, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1935. No. 3, as amended byStatutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80 and 95; 1936, Nos. 50 and 113; 1937, Nos. 19, 35, 37 and 48; 1938, Nos. 2, 35. 94 and 100; 1939, Nos. 44, 57, and 69; 1940. Nos. 1 and 232; 1942, Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 551; 1943, Nos. 37, 94, 122 and 286; 1944, No. 145; 1945, No. 194; and 1946, No. 131.

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

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