Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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
Postal Regulations.
Packets.—Within the Commonwealth and to British New Guinea, New Zealand, and Fiji. Commercial Papers. Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.
Packets.—To the United Kingdom and Foreign Countries. Commercial Papers. Printed Papers of every kind. Patterns and Samples. Registration.
General Postal Regulations.
Miscellaneous. Payment of Postage by the Receiver. Official Correspondence—State of Victoria. Electoral Papers.
Parcels Post.
Telephone Regulations.
Duty of Officers in relation to Savings Bank Moneys.
should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this eleventh day of February, One thousand nine hundred and ten.
DUDLEY,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN QUICK.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.
Packets.
commercial papers.
Paragraph (
“and the name and address of the addressee.”
The Regulations under this head (
“Dry powders, being colouring powders or dyes, must be placed in bags of leather, rubber-dressed linen, or oiled paper of stout substance; and dry powders, not being colouring powders or dyes, must be placed in boxes of metal, wood, or cardboard. These bags or boxes must be themselves enclosed in bags of linen or parchment.”
1. commercial papers.
The first paragraph of the
Regulation under this head (
“‘Commercial Papers’ comprise all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or partly by hand (except letters or communications in the nature of letters, or other papers or documents having the character of an actual and personal correspondence), documents of legal procedure, deeds drawn up by public functionaries, waybills or bills of lading, invoices, the various documents of insurance companies, copies of or extracts from acts under private signature (written on stamped or unstamped paper), music scores, or sheets of music in manuscript, the manuscripts of works or of newspapers forwarded separately, pupils’ exercises in original or with corrections, but without any comment on the work, and other papers of a similar description; also letters and post cards of ancient date which have already fulfilled their original purpose.”
2. printed papers of every kind.
Regulation
3. patterns and samples.
The Regulations under this head (
“7. Dry powders, being colouring powders or dyes, must be placed in bags of leather, rubber-dressed linen, or oiled paper of stout
substance, and dry powders, not being colouring powders or dyes, must be placed in boxes of metal, wood, or cardboard. These bags or boxes must be themselves enclosed in bags of linen or parchment.”
Regulation 1 under this head (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 99) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:—
“The reply halves of reply-paid post cards cannot be registered by the original senders of such cards.”
General Postal Regulations.
The
Regulations under this head (
(
a ) by inserting in Regulation 10 after the words “hands of,” in the second line thereof, the words “postal agents on board, or of,” and(
b ) by adding at the end thereof the following Regulation:—“18. Wedding cake shall not be posted unless it is securely packed in tin boxes, and if any postal article containing wedding cake not securely packed in a tin box is posted, such postal article shall be deemed to have been posted in contravention of the Act, and shall be dealt with accordingly.”
Regulation 1 under this head (Statutory Rules 1907, No. 56) is repealed, and the following Regulation substituted in lieu thereof:—
“I. (I) Postal articles addressed to—
The Commissioner of Taxes, Melbourne.
The Government Statist, Melbourne, or any Collector of Statistics.
The Chairman or Secretary of the Board of Health, Melbourne; or
The Chief Electoral Inspector, Melbourne;
(2) Letters enclosed in envelopes having the words ‘On His Majesty’s Service’ printed thereon and—
(
a ) addressed to any officer of a Department of the State Government of Victoria, at any place in Victoria; or(
b ) bearing the following printed address:—‘The Chief Probation Officer,
Temperance and General Buildings,
Cor. Little Collins and Swanston streets, Melbourne’; and
(3) Official wrappers containing school returns, and addressed to—
Truant Officers at the Post Offices at Malvern, St. Kilda, Moonee Ponds, Ararat, Bendigo, South Melbourne, Ballarat, Hawthorn, Dandenong, Richmond, Footscray, Brunswick, Carlton, Castlemaine, Seymour, Geelong, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Melbourne,
may, if posted in the State of Victoria, be sent by post without prepayment of postage, but the postage thereon at prepaid rates shall be paid by the person to whom they are addressed upon their delivery to him.”
The Regulations under this head are amended by inserting therein after the Regulation relating to “Official Correspondence—State of Victoria,” the following Regulation:—
Voting papers enclosed in envelopes having the words “Voting Paper, Rockhampton Harbor Board,” written or printed thereon, and addressed to—
The Returning Officer,
Rockhampton Harbor Board,
Rockhampton,
may, if posted within the Commonwealth, be sent by post without prepayment of postage; but the postage thereon at prepaid rates shall be paid by the person to whom they are addressed, upon their deliver to him.”
The Regulation under this head (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 70) is repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—
(1) Postal articles containing electoral papers may be sent by post free of charge from or to electoral officers if—
(
a ) they contain only electoral papers as defined in this Regulation, and the words “Electoral papers only,” together with the signature and address of the sender, are printed or written on the envelope or wrapper, or upon the papers themselves, if they are eligible for transmission without envelopes or wrappers; or(
b ) they consist of ballot-papers sent in covers bearing the following indorsements and address printed thereon, namely:—
O.H.M.S.
No. Electoral papers only.
Postal Ballot-paper Post free.
Not to be opened until scrutiny.
The Returning Officer for the
Commonwealth Electoral Division of
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(2) This Regulation shall apply only to the following electoral papers:—
(
a ) Electoral Papers (including Rolls) provided for by the Commonwealth Electoral Acts and Regulations thereunder,(
b ) Commonwealth and joint forms (including Rolls) provided for in any Joint Regulations made in pursuance of an arrangement entered into by the Commonwealth and any State for the preparation, alteration, and revision of Electoral Rolls.Provided that the forms (including Rolls) are used wholly or partly for Commonwealth purposes.
(
c ) Referendum Papers provided for by theReferendum (Constitution Alteration )Act 1906-1909 or by Regulations made thereunder.(3) This Regulation shall not be deemed to exempt from postage any of the following articles:—
(
a ) Joint and other forms not provided for in the Commonwealth Electoral Acts and Regulations, or in the Joint Regulations, which are used in connexion with the Electoral Acts of the Commonwealth and those of a State or States; and(
b ) Forms (including Rolls) provided for in the Joint Regulations which are used solely for State purposes.
Parcels Post.
The
Regulation under this head (
1. (1) Where any parcel addressed to a trader remains undelivered (by reason of detention for Customs purposes, non-completion of Customs requirements, non-payment of duty, or on account of any non-postal reason) for more than 14 days (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) after the posting to the addressee of a notification of its arrival, demurrage may be charged on the parcel at the rate of 1s. 3d. per week or portion thereof during which it remains undelivered after such 14 days. Provided that, where the Postmaster is satisfied that the parcel does not contain goods for the purpose of trade, demurrage shall not be chargeable under this paragraph.(2) Where any parcel (not chargeable with demurrage under paragraph (1)) addressed to a Post Office to be called for, from which Post Office there is a house-to-house delivery of letters, has remained in the office of destination for a period of 21 days (exclusive of Sundays and holidays), by reason of the addressee failing to take delivery of it, demurrage shall be charged on the parcel at the rate of one penny per day for each day during which it remains undelivered after such 21 days, but the maximum demurrage chargeable on any one parcel under this paragraph shall not exceed one shilling and sixpence.
(3) No parcel on which demurrage is chargeable shall be delivered until the charge for demurrage has been paid.
(4) No demurrage shall be charged on parcels addressed to persons on board ship.
(5) In the case of parcels returned to the country of origin as undeliverable, the charge for demurrage is to be cancelled.
Telephone Regulations.
Regulation 30 under this head (Statutory Rules 1907, No. 46) is amended by deleting therefrom the words and figures “For each translator ..................0 3 0,” and inserting the following words and figures in lieu thereof:—
“For each translator for connecting single lines with metallic circuits at a switchboard ...... 0 3 0
For each translator (with protector and cover) for connecting single privately erected lines with Departmental metallic circuits... 0 10 0.”
Duty of Officers in Relation to Savings Bank Moneys.
Every officer doing duty at a Post Office, at or in connexion with which Savings Bank business is transacted, shall be charged with the duty of receiving, disbursing, and accounting for Savings Bank moneys, and all Savings Bank moneys received by him, or which come into his possession or control as such officer, shall be deemed to be received by him for or on account of the Commonwealth.
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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