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

 

STATUTORY RULES.

1905. No. 24.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION 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 attached Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and five.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

SYDNEY SMITH,

By His Excellency's Command.

GENERAL POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Payment of Postage by the Receiver.

The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, published in the Commonwealth Gazette on the 5th June, 1902, are hereby amended by the insertion of the following new regulation under the above head :—

3. The postage on the following postal articles may be paid by the receiver instead of being prepaid by the sender :—

Correspondence from Commonwealth Electoral Registrars to Commonwealth Divisional Returning Officers, if posted within the Commonwealth, enclosed in covers bearing the printed address—

" The Divisional Returning Officer,

Commonwealth Electoral Division

of...................................."

and having printed thereon the words, " Commonwealth Electoral Registrar........................," and " Postage to be paid on delivery under provisions of Section 97 (q) of Post and Telegraph Act, 1901."

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

C,3893.— Price 3d.