Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATURORY RULES
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
(Issued Provisionally as Statutory Rule No. 41 of 1906.)
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended
Regulations under the
Postal Regulations,
General Postal Regulations,
Parcels Post,
To come into operation on the 22nd day of December, 1906.
Dated this fourth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and six.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
Postal Regulations.
The Regulations under the above head shall be amended by inserting the following after the Regulations under the sub-head “Late Fees”:—
Letter cards provided by private individuals and bearing impressed or adhesive stamps shall be allowed to pass through the post at the rate of postage prescribed for letters in the respective States, but reply letter cards so provided may be so transmitted only within the Commonwealth.
Postage stamps may be impressed or printed on such letter cards under the same conditions as are set forth in the Regulations relating to “impressing or printing stamps on private post cards,” except that Regulation 1 under the latter head shall not apply to such letter cards.
General Postal Regulations.
Regulation No. 5 of the Regulations under this head shall be repealed and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—
5. The Postmaster-General will not undertake to intercept postal articles at any office other than that to which they are addressed, or to intercept and re-address postal articles addressed to the care of private-box holders or to hotels, coffee palaces, lodging houses, and such like places.
General Postal Regulations.
The Regulation under this head, and the addition thereto made by Statutory Rules 1904, No. 45, shall be repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—
Postage stamps of the value of one half-penny, one penny, and twopence may be impressed on envelopes, envelopes combined with sheets of note-paper, newspaper wrappers or circulars with reply halves intended to be used as orders for publications, goods, &c., supplied by the public for that purpose, provided that not fewer than 500 envelopes, wrappers, or such circulars, of any one size, be supplied at the one time, and that the paper for wrappers be in sheets and not cut in slips. Coloured envelopes or wrappers or those too thin to bear the impression of the die shall not be accepted. Envelopes or wrappers provided by the Postmaster-General’s Department, with the proper stamp thereon, may be substituted for any which may be spoiled in the operation of stamping.
The charges, which must be paid in advance, shall be:—
The value of the stamps, and 2s. per thousand, or portion of a thousand, for the work of stamping.
Envelopes, envelopes combined with sheets of note-paper, newspaper wrappers, or circulars with reply halves intended to be used as orders for publications, goods, &c., upon which it is desired that postage stamps shall be impressed, may be accepted at any official Post Office, and, when accepted, may be transmitted to and returned from the General Post Office without charge for postage.
Parcels Post.
The
Regulation under this head shall be amended by omitting the first paragraph of
Part (
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b ) Received from places beyond the Commonwealth, parcels which cannot be delivered shall, in the absence of instructions from the senders respecting same, be retained in the State of destination for a period of one month in the case of parcels from the United States of America; four months in the case of parcels from New Zealand and Fiji; and seven months in all other cases, when, if still undelivered, they shall be returned to the senders through the colonies or countries whence they were received.By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.
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