Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1904, No. 34.)
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned
Regulation under the
Transmission of Packets within the Commonwealth, 6, and Newspapers (General), 3,
to come into operation on the 2nd day of October, 1905,
Dated this fourteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
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POSTAL REGULATIONS.
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Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.
6. All legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book or document, or of a portion thereof, is permissible, whether it be loose or attached, as also rollers in case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise in the case of books), or whatever isnecessary for the safe transmission of such articles or usually appertains thereto.
In any case where an officer of the Department has good grounds for suspecting any infringement of the foregoing Regulations, he may open the packet; and if any irregularity that does not appear to have been an attempt to defraud has occurred, he must treat the packet as an insufficiently prepaid letter, and charge postage accordingly, Should there be an evident attempt to defraud, or should the contents be such as are not allowed to pass through the post, be must forward the postal article with a report of the circumstance to the Deputy Postmaster-General. Any packet so opened must be securely refastened.
Newspapers.
3. If a newspaper posted at any place within the Commonwealth be found by an officer of the Department to contain writing or any illegal enclosure, it must be forwarded by him with a report of the circumstances to the Deputy Postmaster-General; but any such newspaper posted at a place beyond the Commonwealth shall be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.
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