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

STATUTORY RULES.

1907. No. 39.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Value Payable Post: Regulation 4a.

General Postal Regulations: Sale of Postage Stamps of one State in another State.

should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 25th day of April, One thousand nine hundred and seven.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

 

Value Payable Post.

Regulation 4a under this head (made by Statutory Rules 1905, No. 52) is repealed, and the following substituted therefor:—

4a. When articles sent in execution of an order from one individual must necessarily on account of weight be forwarded in two or more parcels, and such parcels are posted at the same time and to the same address, the remittance for the whole order may be sent by means of one Money Order, if all are accepted and paid for at the same time, but if an addressee takes delivery of only one parcel of a consignment the value of that parcel is to be remitted, less commission on the Money Order. The value of other parcels to be remitted according as they are accepted and paid for, commission being deducted. In such cases, however, the certificate provided for in Regulation 4 must specify that, to the best of the sender’s knowledge, the articles are for the bonâ fide personal use of the addressee.

General Postal Regulations.

The Regulations under this head are amended by the addition of the following new Regulation, after the Regulation “Sale of Lightly Postmarked Postage Stamps”:—

Sale of Postage Stamps of one State in another State.

At the General Post Office in each State postage stamps issued for use in other States of the Commonwealth may be purchased at face value, provided the amount of such stamps purchased at the one time shall not exceed 4d. A commission will be charged at the rate of 1d. for every 6d. worth or portion thereof of stamps so purchased in excess of 4d.

 

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