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

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 255.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1912.

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 1901–1912, namely:—

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth—Re-direction,

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

Dated this twenty-fourth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

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Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth—Re-direction.

The Regulation under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902, page 259, as amended by Statutory Rules 1911, No. 127) is repealed, and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Re-direction.

A telegram may, on the written request of the addressee or his agent, be re-directed and re-transmitted from one office to another within the Commonwealth; such telegram shall, on re-transmission, be charged half rate, with a minimum of 6d., which must be paid before delivery.

A telegram addressed to a hotel or house at which lodgers are received, may, if the addressee has left such hotel or house, be returned, if unopened, to the office from which it was delivered, with an indorsement on the cover containing instructions as to its further transmission; such instructions must be signed and dated by the proprietor of such hotel or house, or his servant, who, for the purpose of this regulation, shall be deemed to be the agent of the addressee of such telegram.

A telegram intended for delivery from an office within the metropolitan area of a capital city, and wrongly addressed to the capital city instead of to the office of intended delivery, and any re-directed telegram, the original and second addresses of which are within a radius of three miles from a General Post Office, may be re-directed and delivered or re-transmitted and delivered without additional charge.

    

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