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

STATUTORY RULES.

1907. No. 60.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1907, No. 26.)

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 Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Interfering with Postage Stamps,

to come into operation on the 29th day of June, 1907.

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

HARRY H. RAWSON,

For the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

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INTERFERING WITH POSTAGE STAMPS.

(1) A person shall not—

(a) Treat or deal with or apply any substance to any postage stamp in any manner so as to facilitate the removal of any postmark which is or may be placed thereon in any Post Office, or

(b) knowingly have in his possession any postage stamp which has been treated or dealt with or to which any substance has been applied in any manner so as to facilitate the removal of any postmark which is or may be placed thereon in any Post Office, or

(c) knowingly put off or use for postal or telegraphic purposes any postage stamp which has been treated or dealt with or to which any substance has been applied in any manner so as to facilitate the removal of any postmark which is or may be placed thereon in any Post Office.

(2) A person who commits a contravention of this Regulation is guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of not more than Fifty pounds and not less than One pound.

(3) Proof that a postage stamp affixed to a postal article has been treated or dealt with, or has had applied to it any substance, in contravention of this Regulation, and that the defendant is the writer of the postal article or of any communication therein or of the address thereon or of any part of such address, or is the sender thereof, shall be primâ-facie evidence that he is guilty of an offence against this Regulation.

(4) Nothing in the preceding paragraph shall prejudice the proof of an offence against this Regulation by other evidence.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.

C.6328.—Price 3d.