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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 23.

 

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 regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely—

General Postal Regulations—Prepayment in cash, in one sum, of postage on large quantities of mail matter—

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

Dated this twentieth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTH COTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

 

GENERAL POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Prepayment in Cash, in One Sum, of Postage on Large Quantities of Mail Matter.

The words “The mail matter must be banded in at the Post Office between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.,” in the seventh line of Regulation 1, under the above head, shall be altered to read as follows:—

‘‘The mail matter must be handed in at the Post Office between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.; but if handed in after 3 p.m. it will be subject to detention, if its despatch interferes with the despatch of other postal matter.”

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

C.2497.—Price 3d.