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

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 61.

 

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:—

Postal Regulations.

Private Boxes;

Registration;

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth.—Extra Rates after Ordinary Business Hours, and on Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday;

Telephone Regulations.

Part IV.—Public Telephones;

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

Dated this twenty-third day of May, One thousand nine hundred and eights.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Postal Regulations.

Private Boxes.

Regulation 1 under this head (Statutory Rules 1908, No. 39) is repealed, and the following regulation substituted in lieu thereof:—

1. (1) Locked Private Boxes may be rented at the General Post Office, and, where provided, at other Post Offices (except those hereinafter provided for) on payment in advance of the following fees:—

For a large box.......................................	£ 3 per annum.
For a medium-sized box.........................	£ 2 per annum.
For a small box......................................	£ 1 per annum.

(2) In the case of a country town where, other than on holidays, deliveries are not effected by letter carriers at least twice a day on at least five days per week, the fee for a small private box shall be only 10s. per annum, payable in advance, provided that at least ten persons are severally prepared to rent private boxes at the post office at that town for at least one year.

  

C.7271.—Price 3d.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions in this regulation for payment of annual fees, persons who declare that they are temporary residents only, and who desire to rent a private box for a limited time, may be allowed the use of such box for a minimum period of three months. In those cases the fee will be charged from the first day of the month in which the box is taken, and a deposit of Five shillings, in addition to the fee, must be made as a guarantee for return in good order of the keys of the box, which deposit will be refunded on the keys being so returned.

Registration.

Regulation 4 under this head (Statutory Rules 1907, No. 123) is repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

4. (1) No registered postal article shall be delivered to any person other than—

(a) The addressee in person; or,

(b) A person authorized by an order from the addressee to receive registered postal articles on his behalf; or,

(c) In the case of business establishments, public institutions, hotels, and lodging houses, the proprietor, or manager or some person authorized by the proprietor or manager to receive the correspondence at such places.

(2) An order under paragraph (b) must bear the date on which it was made, and the addressee’s address, and must be witnessed by some person other than the person in whose favour it is made, and must be delivered to the Postmaster or other proper officer.

Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth.—Extra Rates after Ordinary Business Hours, and on Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday.

The regulation under this head (Gazette of 5th June, 1902) is repealed, and the following regulation substituted in lieu thereof:—

Double the prescribed rates shall be charged on telegrams (press telegrams excepted) tendered for transmission on Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday; and on other days, between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m., in those States in which offices open for business at 9 a.m., and between the corresponding hours in other States, for transmission to offices where business is transacted during those hours.

Telephone Regulations.

Part IV.—Public Telephones.

Regulation No. 49 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) is amended by the addition of the following new clause at the end thereof:—

8. A public telephone will be provided at a cab rank, where required, on the understanding that if a minimum revenue of £5 per annum be not derived from the use of the telephone the instrument will be removed. Any cab proprietor or driver using the cab rank so connected shall be entitled to use the telephone upon payment of the prescribed fee for each call he makes; and no preference, whether for inward or outward messages, shall be given to any cab proprietor or driver using that cab rank.

This Regulation shall not apply to any telephone at a cab rank the annual fee for which is paid by a municipal council.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Government Printer, Melbourne.