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

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 62.

 

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

General Postal Regulations.

Inquiry respecting delivery of Postal Articles; Redirection; Undelivered Mail Matter; Licences to sell Postage Stamps; Postal Notes.

Telephone Regulations.

Part 1.—Telephone Exchanges; Part XVII.—Erection of Public Telegraph or Telephone Lines under Guarantee;

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

Dated this 3rd day of April, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSIAH THOMAS

 

General Postal Regulations.

Inquiry respecting delivery of Postal Articles.

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

(a) by inserting the word “registered” before the words “postal article,” in Regulation 1, and

(b) by omitting from Regulation 2 all the words after the word “provided.”

Redirection.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 244) are amended by omitting from Regulation 2 the words “to surcharge,” and adding at the end of that Regulation the words “to a surcharge of a single rate of postage and single registration fee”.

           

C.5459.—Price 3d.

 

Undelivered Mail Matter.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 244) are amended by repealing Regulation 2, and inserting in lieu thereof the following Regulation:—

“2. Letters or packets sent to a fixed address other than a post-office, not indorsed for return to the senders within a specified time, as provided by Section 46 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1910, and which cannot be delivered, shall be returned to the senders after the expiration of eight days; other letters or packets posted within the Commonwealth for delivery within the Commonwealth shall be retained at the office of address for one month; if received from a place beyond the Commonwealth, they shall be retained for two months; letters or packets addressed to ships shall be retained for four months.

At the expiration of the respective periods the letters or packets must be returned through the Returned Letter Office to the writers, if posted in the State to which addressed, and, if not, to the State or country of origin.”

Licences to sell Postage Stamps.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No, 42, of 29th August, 1902, page 474) are amended by omitting the sign and figure “£3” from Regulation 4, and inserting in lieu thereof the sign and figure “£ 1.”

Postal Notes.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 256) are amended by adding at the end thereof the following new Regulation:—

“ii. Information regarding the payment of postal notes will be furnished only on payment of the following fees, namely:—(a) when sufficient particulars are furnished to enable the postal note to be traced without an extended search, 1s.; (b) when those particulars are not furnished, 2s. 6d., or 1s. for each day’s postal notes examined, whichever sum is larger.”

Telephone Regulations.

Part 1.—Telephone Exchanges.

Regulation 30 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) is amended by inserting after the words and figures “Head receiver, double with cord, 7s, 6d.,” the following words and figures:—” Additional transmitter, 10s.”

Part XVII.—Erection of Public Telegraph or Telephone Lines under Guarantee.

The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) are amended—

1. (a)by inserting between the words “Equal to” and “the difference,” in condition (a) of Regulation 118, the words “seventy-five per centum of.”

(b) by inserting between the words “exceeding” and “the difference,” in condition (b) of Regulation 118, the words “seventy-five per centum of.”

2. by inserting between the words “year” and “any amount,” in Regulation 119, the words “seventy-five per centum of.”

 

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