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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 34.

 

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:—

General Postal Regulations: Prepayment of Postage;

Telegraphic Regulations:

Telegrams within the Commonwealth—

Undelivered telegrams—to be destroyed after six weeks;

Telegrams beyond the Commonwealth—

Undelivered telegrams—to be destroyed after six weeks;

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

Dated this twenty-sixth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DEAKIN.

 

General Postal Regulations.

Prepayment of Postage.

Regulation 1 under this head is repealed, and the following Regulation is substituted in lieu thereof:—

1. Postage stamps must, in all cases (except where otherwise provided in the Regulations under the head of Parcels Post—Postage must be Prepaid), be placed on the front or address side of postal articles, and upon the right-hand upper corner of that side. Postage stamps placed on the back of any postal article will not be recognised or cancelled, and the article to which they are so affixed will be surcharged as insufficiently prepaid.

C.4885.—Price 3d.

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth.

The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, under the above head, are hereby amended by the insertion of the following Regulation after the Regulation relating to “Undelivered Telegrams—Rectification of Address,” viz.:—

Undelivered Telegrams—to be destroyed after six weeks.

Any telegram which cannot be delivered to the addressee before the end of six weeks shall be destroyed; provided, however, that telegrams addressed “poste restante” (to be called for) or those to be delivered by post shall be subject, as to delivery and preservation, to the rules which apply to postal correspondence.

 

Telegrams beyond the Commonwealth.

The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, under the above head, as contained in Statutory Rules 1903, No. 36, are hereby amended by the insertion of the following Regulation after Regulation No. 35, “Undelivered Telegrams—Rectification of Address,” viz.:—

Undelivered Telegrams—to be destroyed after six weeks.

Any telegram which cannot be delivered to the addressee before the end of six weeks shall be destroyed; provided, however, that telegrams addressed “poste restante” (to be called for) or those to be delivered by post shall be subject, as to delivery and preservation, to the rules which apply to postal correspondence.

 

By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.