Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1905. No. 81.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE “POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.”

(Issued Provisionally as Statutory Rule No. 66 of 1905.)

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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 namely:—

Postal Notes—

to come into operation on the sixth day of January, 1906.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and five.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

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POSTAL NOTES.

Regulation No. 9, under the above head of the Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, published in the Gazette on the 5th June, 1902, is hereby repealed, and the following regulation substituted in lieu thereof:—

“9. A postal note presented for payment after sixmonths from the last day of the month of issue, shall not be paid until reference has been made to the chief money order office of the State of issue, and shall be cashed only at the General Post Office of the State of payment, and on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original poundage, for each period of six months, or portion thereof, beyond the first six months from the month of issue; the amount of such commission must be affixed in unobliterated and unperforated postage stamps of the State of payment to the face of the note.”

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By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.

C.12048.—Price 3d.