Postal Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 61.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

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 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from the 29th January, 1931.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of May, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. E. GREEN

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

(Statutory Rules, 1927, No. 144, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 210 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—

210.—(1.) The rate of commission chargeable for the issue of Money Orders shall be as follows:—

(a) For orders payable in—

The Commonwealth: 6d. for each £5 or fraction of £5. Papua, Rabaul (New Guinea), Nauru, Fiji, New Caledonia 3d. for each £1 or fraction of £1 with minimum of 6d.

(b) For orders payable in or through New Zealand: 3d. for each £1 or fraction of £1 with minimum of 6d.

(c) For orders payable in or through Gilbert und Ellice Islands, North Borneo, Solomon Islands, Tonga: 4d. for each £1 or fraction of £1 for the first £6, and 3d. for each additional £1 or fraction of £1 with minimum of 9d.

(d) For orders payable in or through Canada, Ceylon, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, Federated Malay States, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Irish Free State; Italy, Malta; Mauritius, Norway, Straits Settlements, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America (including Hawaii and Pago Pago) Philippine Islands: 4d. for each £1 or fraction of £1 for the first £6 and 3d. for each additional £1 or fraction of £1 with minimum of 9d.

(e) For Maternity Allowance Money Orders: 2d. for each order.

(2.) In addition to the commission specified in paragraph (b) and (d) of Sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, the remitter of a Money Order drawn on any of the countries specified in those paragraphs shall pay the sum required by the Department to cover exchange on the amount remitted.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

1236.—Price 3d.