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

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 5.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR 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:—

Postal Regulations:—

Packets—Within the Commonwealth and to British New Guinea, New Zealand and Fiji; Packets—to the United Kingdom and foreign countries; Patterns and Samples.

Value Payable Post,

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

Dated this twelfth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

(Signed) CHELMSFORD,

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Signed) JOHN QUICK.

 

POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Packets.

Within the Commonwealth and to British New Guinea, New Zealand and Fiji.

The regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902, page 239) are amended:—

(a) by omitting from regulation 1 the words “wedding cake (securely packed)” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “wedding cake (securely packed in tin boxes)”; and

(b) by inserting after regulation 3 the following regulation:—

“3a. Packets containing wedding cake shall not be posted unless the wedding cake is securely packed in tin boxes, and, if any packet containing wedding cake not securely packed in a tin box is posted, the packet shall be deemed to be posted in contravention of the Act and dealt with accordingly.”

 

Packets.

To the United Kingdom, and foreign countries—Patterns and samples.

The regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902, page 241) are amended:—

(a) by repealing regulation 1 and substituting the following regulation in lieu thereof:—

“(1) The pattern and sample post shall be restricted to bonâ fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise. Packets containing goods for sale, or in execution of an order (however small the quantity), or any articles which are not actually patterns or samples, (such as wedding cake or presents) may not be forwarded by pattern and sample post.

Value Payable Post.

The regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902, page 253), as amended by Statutory Rules 1904, No. 45, are amended by adding to regulation 3 the words “or to articles posted in the Commonwealth for transmission to Papua or posted in Papua for transmission to any V.P. office in the Commonwealth.”

 

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