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

STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 111.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1909, No 77, No. 78, and No. 88.)

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.

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth—Counting and Charging.

Money Orders.

to come into operation on the 16th day of October, 1909.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

JOHN QUICK.

 

Postal Regulations.

Packets.

Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.

Regulation 3 under this head (Gazette No. 26,of 5th June, 1902, page 239) is amended by adding, at the end of the first paragraph thereof, the following words:—

“Provided that copies of the Police Gazette issued by any of the State Governments within the Commonwealth may be sent through the post at the packet rate of postage in covers indorsed ‘Police Gazette only,’ with the ends sufficiently open to admit of postal officials seeing that nothing in the nature of a letter is enclosed.”

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth—Counting and Charging.

Regulation 2 under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, p. 257) is amended by the addition at the end thereof of the following paragraph:—

“Each of the following words, when written as one word, or when the two parts of the word are joined by a hyphen, shall be counted as one word, namely:—

(a) Cardinal numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine (inclusive);

(b) Ordinal numbers from twenty-first to ninety-ninth (inclusive); and

(c)the words half-penny, onepenny, twopenny, twopence, threepenny, threepence, fourpenny, fourpence, fivepenny, fivepence, sixpenny, sixpence, sevenpenny, sevenpence, eightpenny, eightpence, ninepenny, ninepence, tenpenny, tenpence, elevenpenny, and elevenpence.”

Money Orders.

Regulation 4 under this head, made by Statutory Rules 1907, No. 57, is amended by inserting in the respective columns of the Table of Rates of Commission, after the words “The Commonwealth” and the figures opposite thereto, the following word and figures:—

Papua ... 0 9 ... 0 9 ... 1 6... 1 6 ... 2 3 ... 2 3 ... 3 0 ... 3 0

 

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