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

STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 104.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1909, No. 69 andNo. 71.)

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:—

General Regulations.

Holiday Arrangements.

Postal Regulations.

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

General Postal Regulations.

Payment of Postage by the Receiver: Old-age Pensions Correspondence.

to come into operation on the 2nd day of October, 1909.

Dated this ninth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN QUICK.

 

General Regulations.

Holiday Arrangements.

Regulation 3 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 98) is amended by omitting from their respective columns the following words:—

“The iron pillar receivers and letter boxes in the city and metropolitan suburbs to be cleared Only at the ordinary hours in the morning As on ordinary days.”  

and by inserting in lieu thereof the following words:—

“The iron pillar receivers and letter boxes in the capital cities and suburbs will be cleared Only at the ordinary hours in the morning, or alternatively in the evening, as may be arranged As on ordinary days.”  

Postal Regulations.

Packets.

within the commonwealth, and to british new guinea, new zealand, and Fiji.

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 inserting after the second paragraph thereof the following words:—

“Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, must be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mails, and to the officers of the Post Office.

Explosives shall not be transmitted.”

General Postal Regulations.

Payment of Postage by the Receiver.

The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 are amended by inserting therein, under the head “General Postal Regulations—Payment of Postage by the Receiver,” the following sub-head and Regulation:—

Old-age Pensions Correspondence.

“Postal articles (a)addressed to Registrars in connexion with Commonwealth Old-age Pensions, and enclosed in the official envelopes of any Commonwealth or State Department, bearing the indorsement ‘Commonwealth Old-age Pensions,’ and (b)enclosed, in envelopes having the words ‘On His Majesty’s Service’ printed thereon and addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Pensions in any of the State capital cities in the Commonwealth, may, if posted within the Commonwealth of Australia, be sent by post without prepayment of postage, but the postage thereon at prepaid rates shall be paid by the Commissioner of Pensions for the Commonwealth or by the Deputy Commissioner,”

 

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