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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 125.

 

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 notify that, on account of urgency, the under-mentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telegraphic Regulations: Telegrams within the Commonwealth—Repetition of Telegrams,

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

Dated this twenty-eighth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

 

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth.

The Regulation under the head of “Repetition of Telegrams” is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor, viz.:—

Repetition of Telegrams.

In order to provide against any mistakes in the transmission and delivery of telegrams, any telegram may be repeated by being re-transmitted from the office of delivery to the sender on payment by the latter, at the time of lodgment, of 50 per cent. in addition to the ordinary rate. In such telegrams the word “repetition’’ must appear in the preamble of the telegrams, and be charged for.

Repeated messages must be treated as paid service advices.

 

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

C.474.—Price 3d.