Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 99.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1961.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of October, 1962.

DE L’ISLE

Governor General

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendments of the Telegraph Regulations.

Counting of groups containing figures and letters and designs.

1. Regulation 38 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) A full stop, hyphen, comma, dash, bar or each of the pair of marks forming a bracket shall, when used in a group of characters which are counted at the rate of one word for each five characters contained in the group, be counted as a character in the group in which it occurs and shall be transmitted in all cases.”.

Delivery of telegrams.

2. Regulation 45 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “and”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-paragraph:—

“(iv) from a post office at which a person is employed for the purpose of delivering telegrams if the address to which the telegram is to be delivered is an address within a city, town or suburb to which a regular delivery of postal articles is made; and”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1962,

  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 1931, Nos. 70, 132 and 136; 1933, Nos. 88, 102 and 127; 1934, Nos. 24, 113 and 137; 1935, No. 77; 1938, No 63; 1939, Nos. 14 and 84; 1940, Nos. 50, 87 and 102; 1942, No. 550; 1943, Nos. 215 and 242; 1944, No. 91; 1945, No. 10; 1946, No. 139; 1948. No. 23; 1949, Nos. 19 and 91; 1950, No. 91; 1951, Nos. 23, 73 and 90; 1952, Nos. 6, 35 and 78; 1954, No. 5; 1955, No. 58; 1956, No. 69; 1957, No. 41; 1958, Nos. 13 and 50; 1959, Nos. 10 and 84; 1960, No. 15; and 1961, No. 76.

212/62.—Price 3d. 10/10.8.1962.

Production of telegrams.

3. Regulation 70 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “, a Chief Commissioner of Police,” and inserting in their stead the words “, a Commissioner of Police,”; and

(b) by omitting the words “the Director of the Commonwealth Investigation Service,”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.