Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
Regulations under the post and telegraph act 1901.
(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1907, No. 11.)
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 Regulation under the
General Postal Regulations—
to come into operation on the first day of June, 1907.
Dated this eighth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and seven.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
General Postal Regulations.
The Regulations under the
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a ) By substituting the following regulations in place of regulation 1:—1. The charge for a private mail bag made up and despatched from a Post Office by mail-man, shall be
£ 1 per annum if made up and despatched not more than thrice a week; or,£ 2per annum if made up and despatched more than thrice a week; provided, however, that the charge for making up bags conveyed from and to a Post Office by a private messenger instead of by a mail-man, shall be£ 1per annum if made up not more than once daily, or£ 2 per annum if made up more than once daily.The charge in
each case shall be payable in advance.(
b ) By adding thereto the following new regulation:—8. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing regulations, Institutions, persons or firms whose premises are not situated on a mail route may have private bags (to be conveyed only by private messenger) made up at an annual cost of
£ 1 if made up not more than once daily, or£ 2if made up more than once daily. For bags of this kind, made up at the General Post Office, lockers—in which they will be deposited after ordinary office hours—will be provided at the General Post Office for an annual rental of£ 2 per annum.
The charge in each case shall be payable in advance, and the provisions of the foregoing regulations 2 to 6 inclusive shall also apply.
By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.
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