Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Postmaster-General’s Department,
26th July, 1904.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
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HIS Excellency the Governor-General, acting with the advice of the
Federal Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the
HUGH MAHON,
Postmaster-General.
PRELIMINARY.
In
these Regulations references to Regulations hereby amended, or having other
provisions substituted therefor, shall be construed as references to the
Regulations of the 5th June, 1902, made under the
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS.
The following shall be substituted as the heading to the second column of Regulation No. 3—Holiday Arrangements—in lieu of the heading to that column:—
“New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, King’s Birthday, Boxing Day, and holidays proclaimed throughout the Commonwealth, or appointed or proclaimed in any State or part of a State, and generally observed in that State or part as public holidays.”
The following shall be substituted as the heading to the third column of Regulation No. 3—Holiday Arrangements—in lieu of the heading to that column:—
“Other days or half days appointed or proclaimed as holidays in any State or part of a State, but not generally observed in that State or part as holidays.”
PACKETS
Commercial Papers.
The Regulation relating to commercial papers shall be amended as follows:—
The words “Cheque forms bound in books” shall be inserted after the line “Bills of lading”;
The words “Files of official papers forwarded between Government departments or between officers thereof, provided the remarks and instructions thereon are at least seven days old at the time of posting” shall be inserted after the line “Examination papers (corrections allowed)”;
The words “Promissory notes, signed, also those unsigned, but wholly or partly filled in” shall be inserted in place of the words “Promissory notes, signed or unsigned”;
The words “In the case of orders, instructions as to packing, the route for forwarding, and effecting insurance of the goods may be added” shall be added to the line “Travellers’ cards, circulars or orders.”
REGISTRATION.
Regulation 1, under the head “Registration” shall be amended by adding the words—“No letter, letter-card, post-card, packet, or newspaper addressed to initials or to a fictitious name shall be accepted for registration unless addressed to the care of some person.”
GENERAL POSTAL REGULATIONS.
Delivery of Letters and Packets addressed to “The Householder” or any similar Address.
1. Letters and packets addressed to “The Householder,” or any similar address, at any place where postal articles are delivered by letter carrier, shall be received and dealt with as follows:—
The letters and packets must be posted in bulk, and shall be conveyed to the post office at the place of destination, and (so far as the number posted will admit) one of the letters or packets shall be delivered by letter carrier at each house within the limits of his delivery.
2. The postage on the letters and packets may, subject to the Regulations relating to prepayment of postage in cash, be prepaid in cash.
Payment of Postage by the Receiver.
The following articles may be sent by post without prepayment of postage, viz:—
Postal articles addressed to the head office of any State Government department in Perth or Fremantle, and forwarded thereto by any branch or office of that department, if enclosed in a cover having thereon the words “Head Office Correspondence” in the place where stamps are usually affixed, and having thereon the name of the sending branch or office in the left hand lower corner;
Postal articles, containing mining returns only, addressed to Mining Registrars, if sent in covers having thereon the name of the department concerned, and the words “Mining Returns only.”
Postage at prepaid rates must be paid on delivery by the officer or department to which the postal articles are addressed.
Impressing Stamps on Envelopes, Wrappers, etc., for the Public.
The following addition shall be made to the Regulation under this head:—
“Envelopes, envelopes combined with sheets of notepaper, or newspaper wrappers, 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.”
Repurchase of Postage Stamps and Post-cards.
The following addition shall be made to the Regulation under this head:—
Postage stamps received by collectors of public moneys in their official capacity and tendered at the General Post Office of the State of issue may be repurchased at their face value, less a discount of 2½ per cent., provided that the stamps are not perforated, soiled, or otherwise damaged. In other respects (except that the stamps need not be in strips) the conditions as to repurchase of stamps from the public shall apply.
PARCELS POST.
Regulation 1, under the head “
Value-payable Post.
The regulations under the head “Value-payable Post” shall be amended as follows:—
The following Regulation shall be inserted after Regulation 2:—
2a. Value-payable parcels addressed to a place where there is no value-payable office may be accepted for transmission to the nearest value-payable office, where the value will be collected and the parcel afterwards forwarded as an ordinary parcel to its destination.
Before the first word of Regulation 3 the words “except as provided above” shall be inserted.
POSTAL NOTES.
The following Regulation shall be substituted for Regulation No. 6 under the head “POSTAL NOTES”:—
6. A postal note may be crossed (like a cheque) when it shall be paid only through a bank. A note so crossed may be paid at any Money Order or Postal Note Office in the Commonwealth, notwithstanding that the name of an office other than that at which it is presented has been inserted. Notes so crossed must be presented by a bank official and bear an impression of the bank’s stamp.
Provided, however, that such notes, when made payable to a particular person, must, besides bearing the bank’s stamp, be receipted by that person. If made payable to a particular firm or company, the ordinary business stamp of the firm or company shall, when request to that effect has been made in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General, be accepted as a sufficient receipt.
TELEGRAPHIC REGULATIONS.
TELEGRAMS WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH.
The following addition shall be made to the second paragraph of the
Regulation under the head “
“If the addressee of the telegram refuses to pay any charges due thereon, the sender shall be required to pay them.”
The
words “This Regulation shall not apply to ‘Press’ Telegrams” shall be omitted
from the Regulation under the head “
“Multiple Press Telegrams may be supplied throughout the Commonwealth on payment of Fourpence per hundred words, or portion of one hundred words, for each ‘copy.’”
The following addition shall be made to the
Regulation under the head “
“If the sender of the reply telegram refuses to pay any excess upon the amount prepaid, the excess words can only be sent in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation relating to ‘Collect Telegrams.’”
The
Regulation under the head “
“A receipt showing the amount paid for any telegram handed in at a Telegraph or Telephone Office shall be given to the sender, when so required by him, on payment of One penny (1d.). The officer receiving the message must fill in the form of receipt, as well as the butt thereof, and must, after affixing a penny adhesive stamp to the butt, and initialing and date-stamping both portions of the form, so as to cancel the stamp, hand to the sender or his representative the receipt portion.
“When a complete book of receipts has been used the butts must be forwarded to the Head Office in each State to be checked.”
Regulation 1 of the Regulations under the head “
“Telegrams shall be delivered free of charge within a radius of 3 miles from a General Post Office and within a radius of 1 mile from any other office where a delivery of telegrams is made. Telegrams for addresses beyond the above-mentioned radii, but within a radius of 3½ miles from a General Post Office, or within a radius of 1½ miles from any other office of destination to which a messenger is attached, shall be delivered on payment of a charge of Threepence (3d.) each, but the department will not undertake delivery in any case in which natural obstacles or other difficulties intervene. Beyond the above-mentioned radii of 3½ miles and 1½ miles delivery expenses shall be charged. For telegrams to be delivered on shipboard a charge for boat hire, if necessary, may be made.”
Regulation 3, under the above head, shall be amended by inserting the word “prescribed” before “radius,” and by omitting the words “of 1½ mile.”
The following addition shall be made to the Regulation under the
head “
“A telegram intended for delivery from an office within a radius of 3 miles from a General Post Office and wrongly addressed to any other office within that radius, and any re-directed telegram, the original and second address of which are also within that radius, may be re-directed and delivered or re-transmitted and delivered without additional charge.”
Telegrams
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TELEGRAMS BEYOND THE COMMONWEALTH.
1a. Telegraphic messages for transmission by cable to places beyond the Commonwealth shall be given precedence of Commonwealth ordinary and press telegrams.
Regulation 31, under the head “
The
following Regulation shall be inserted after Regulation 35, and headed “
35a. The sender of a private telegram addressed to a country in which the “Urgent” system is in operation with respect to international private telegrams, may obtain priority of transmission and delivery at destination by writing the word “Urgent” or the letter “(D)” before the address, and by paying three times the charge for an ordinary telegram of the same length and for the same transit.
TELEPHONE REGULATIONS.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGES.
The following Regulation shall be substituted for Regulation 11:—
“11. If a subscriber requires his telephone to be removed to another address or position, or any alterations to be made, he shall be required to pay the
actual cost of labour entailed in making alterations to the line (unless the rental be increased) plus the total cost of refitting the telephone; but if the rental be increased only the cost of refitting the telephone shall be charged.”
The following Regulation shall be substituted for Regulation 15:—
“15. When any existing line is extended, and the extension does not increase the total radial mileage of the line beyond that for which rent is being paid at the time, the subscriber requiring the extension to be made
shall pay the cost of labour in connexion therewith. He shall also pay the prescribed annual rental for such extra instruments (if any) as are required on the extension.”
TELEPHONE TRUNK LINES.
Regulation 20 shall be repealed and the following Regulation shall be inserted in its place :—
“A telephone line connecting any two offices of the department, at neither or only one of which a telephone exchange has been opened, may be used for conversations by the general public, subject to the following conditions, and on payment of the fees set forth hereunder, provided that such use by the public shall not interfere with the ordinary work of the department:—
(1) When it is not necessary to send a messenger for the person to be spoken to, the fee payable by the person initiating the conversation shall be the same as is specified for conversations on telephone trunk lines.
(2) When it is necessary to send a messenger for the person to be spoken to, the following charges shall be made in addition to the charge specified in the last preceding clause:—
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a ) For a messenger sent to call to the telephone any person who resides within a radius of 1 mile thereof, 6d.(
b ) For a messenger sent to call to the telephone any person who resides beyond that radius, in addition to the fee of 6d., the usual porterage fees charged for the delivery of telegrams.”
By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.
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