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

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 79.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1910.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealthof 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 1901-1910, 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 26th day of May, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSIAH THOMAS.

 

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 1904, No. 45) is amended by repealing the third paragraph thereof and inserting in its place the following paragraph:—

“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 address of which are within a radius of 3 miles from a General Post Office, may be redirected and delivered or re-transmitted and delivered without additional charge.”

 

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