Telegraph Regulations 1927 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No..

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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934.

Dated this Twenty second

day of May, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.

Lettergrams (Letter-telegrams).

Regulation 62 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (2); and

(b)by omitting sub-regulations (12) and (13) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(12.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, a lettergram shall be posted at the office of destination for delivery by the earliest post after the date of posting.

(13.) Lettergrams may be accepted for transmission by telegraph to a lettergram office—

(a) for onward despatch by the earliest post after the date of lodgment to any place within the Commonwealth; or

(b)for telephoning, upon payment of the appropriate trunk line fee in addition to the prescribed lettergram charges, to another office having limited lettergram facilities, for delivery from that office by the earliest post after the date of lodgment.

(13a.) A lettergram shall be regarded and dealt with as a letter from the time it is posted in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (12) and (13) of this regulation.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 35, 88 and 97; 1929, Nos. 15 and 128; 1930, Nos. 1, 5, 42, 81, 114 and 129; 1931, Nos. 70, 132 and 136; 1933, Nos. 102 and 127; 1934, Nos. 24, 113 and 137; 1935, No. 77; 1938, No. 63; 1939, Nos. 14 and 84; and 1940, No. 50.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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