Telegrams Beyond the Commonwealth Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 135.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1910.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1913, No. 68.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1910, namely:—

Telegrams Beyond the Commonwealth.

Manner of Writing and Acceptance of Telegrams,

to come into operation on the thirty-first day of May, 1913.

Dated this tenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. FINDLEY.

 

Telegrams Beyond the Commonwealth.

Regulations Governing the Transmission of Telegram to and from Places Beyond the Commonwealth.

II.—Manner of Writing and Acceptance of Telegrams.

Regulation 13 under this head (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 124) is repealed, and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—

“13. Telegrams in plain language shall mean those of which the text is entirely written in language which offers an intelligible sense in one or more of the languages authorized for international telegraphic correspondence, viz., English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, or Latin, or any language notified by any Administration which is a party to the International Telegraph Union, as authorized for international telegraphic correspondence in plain language, when such language is that of the country of destination; and shall also include code addresses, commercial marks, exchange quotations, letters representing signals of the international code of signals employed in maritime telegrams, abbreviated expressions currently used in ordinary or commercial correspondence, as fob, cif, caf, svp, or any other analogous expression.

The Postmaster-General may require the sender to produce such evidence as to the meaning and the admissibility of any word and the ordinary usage of any language, and as to any other particular as will satisfy him that the Regulations in respect of plain language are duly observed.”

 

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