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

STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 137.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1909, No. 108.)

 

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 Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Postal Regulations.

Packets.—Within the Commonwealth and to Papua (British New Guinea), New Zealand, and Fiji,

to come into operation on the 25th day of December, 1909.

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

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN QUICK.

 

Postal Regulations.

Packets.—Within the Commonwealth and to Papua (British New Guinea), New Zealand, and Fiji.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902) are amended—

(a) By adding at the end of Regulation 1, under the sub-head, “Printed Papers” (as amended on 21st August, 1902, Gazette No. 42, of 29th August, 1902), the following words:—

“A printed order form and a printed and addressed envelope may be treated as part of a magazine if bound or fastened therein,’’ and

(b) By inserting after Regulation 1, under the sub-head, “Terms and Conditions under which packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth,” the following new Regulations:—

“1a. A packet containing articles liable to different rates of postage shall be treated as if the whole contents were in the same category, and shall be charged at the highest rate applicable to any portion of its contents.”

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.16506.—Price 3d.