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

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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1912, namely: —

Postal Regulations.

Registration—Compensation for the Loss of Registered Articles,

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

Dated this first day of August, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

Postal Regulations,

Registration—Compensation for the Loss of Registered Articles.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 243) are amended—

(1) by repealing Regulation 1 and inserting the following subheading and Regulation in its stead : —

" Registered Articles posted in the Commonwealth for Delivery Therein.

1. " Compensation may be granted for the loss of registered letters, packets, books, and newspapers (but not parcels), under the following Regulations :—

" In the event of the loss of any such article, registered by the sender, posted in the Commonwealth for delivery therein, compensation up to but not exceeding £2 may be allowed."

and (2) by inserting at the end of the said Regulations the following sub-heading and Regulation : —

" Registered Articles received from a Country within the Postal Union.

1. If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General that a letter or packet received from beyond the Commonwealth, duly admitted to registration by the Administration of a country within the Postal Union which has uniform Regulations, has been entirely lost while in his custody, the Postmaster-General undertakes to pay an indemnity of 50 francs (£2), except in cases beyond control (e.g.,tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, war, &c.). No compensation, however, is payable except in the case of the loss of the entire letter or packet ; and no claim will be admitted if made more than a year after the letter or packet was duly posted."

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.10800.—Price 3d.