Telegrams Beyond the Commonwealth Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1910.
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
Telegrams Beyond the Commonwealth:
should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of February, 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 Telegrams to and from Places Beyond the Commonwealth
Regulation 13 under this head (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 124) is repealed, and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—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.”
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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