Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 132.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations to come into operation on and from 1st October, 1931.

Dated this nineteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. E. GREEN

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended to this date.)

After Regulation 58a the following Regulation is inserted:—

Supply of copies of telegrams.

“58b. Copies of ordinary telegrams may be prepared by the Department and delivered, upon receipt at one or more offices of destination, to addressees other than the addressees indicated in the original telegrams, subject to the following conditions, viz.:—

(a) Prior notice of the sender’s intention to lodge telegrams under this Regulation, together with a complete list of the names and addresses shall be furnished to the Department in adequate time;

(b) The number of copies of the same text to be delivered as a result of the lodgments on any one day shall not be less than 2,500;

(c) The charge for the original telegram to each office of destination shall be that prescribed for ordinary telegrams;

(d) The charge for each copy shall be at the rate of fivepence for each fifty words or portion thereof contained in each copy; and

(e) The total charge shall not average less than sixpence per copy, including both original telegrams and copies thereof.”

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

2984.—Price 3d.