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

STATUTORY RULES.

1909. No. 69.

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 Regulations.

Holiday Arrangements,

Postal Regulations.

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

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

Dated this twenty-first day of June, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN QUICK.

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General Regulations.

Holiday Arrangements.

Regulation 3 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 98) is amended by omitting from their respective columns the following words: —

“The iron pillar receivers and letter boxes in the city and metropolitan suburbs to be cleared Only at the ordinary hours in the morning As on ordinary days.”

and by inserting in lieu thereof the following words :—

“The iron pillar receivers and letter boxes in the capital cities and suburbs will be cleared Only at the ordinary hours in the morning, or alternatively in the evening, as may be arranged As on ordinary days.”

Postal Regulations.

Packets.

WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH AND TO BRITISH NEW GUINEA, NEW ZEALAND, AND FIJI.

Terms and conditions under which, packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.

C.8416.—Price 3d.

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

“Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, must be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mails, and to the officers of the Post Office.

Explosives shall not be transmitted.”

 

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