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

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 134.

 

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 Past and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Postal Regulations.

Packets—1. Within the Commonwealth and to Papua, New Zealand, and Fiji. Articles not allowed to be sent by Packet Post:

Parcels Post—Prohibited articles,

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

Dated this twenty-second day of December, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSIAH THOMAS.

 

Postal Regulations.

Packets.

1. Within, the Commonwealth and to Papua, New Zealand, and Fiji.

Articles not allowed to be sent by Packet Post

The Regulation under this head (Gazette No, 26, of the 5th June, 1902, page 240) is amended by inserting after the word “mail-bags,” in the fourth line, the following words:—

“Notices or information relating to lotteries, schemes of chance, unlawful games, fraudulent, obscene, indecent, or immoral businesses or undertakings, and other matters coming within the provisions of Section 57 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901.”

Parcels Post.

Prohibited Articles,

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of the 5th June, 1902, page 250) are amended by inserting after Regulation 3, the following new Regulation:—

“3A. The transmission by parcels post of notices or information relating to lotteries, schemes of chance, unlawful games, fraudulent, obscene, indecent, or immoral businesses or undertakings, and other matters coming within the provisions of Section 57 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, is prohibited. If a parcel containing any such prohibited article be posted in contravention of this Regulation, or be received by post from any place outside the Commonwealth, it shall be sent to the Dead Letter Office for disposal.”

 

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