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

STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 78.

 

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

Postal Regulations.

Packets,

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

Dated this fifth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN QUICK.

 

Postal Regulations.

Packets.

Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.

Regulation 3 under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 239) is amended by adding, at the end of the first paragraph thereof, the following words:—

“Provided that copies of the Police Gazette issued by any of the State Governments within the Commonwealth may be sent through the post at the packet rate of postage in covers indorsed ‘Police Gazette only,’ with the ends sufficiently open to admit of postal officials seeing that nothing in the nature of a letter is enclosed.”

 

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

C.9098.—Price 3d.