STATUTORY RULES.
1924. No. 107.
REGULATION 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 undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1923, to come into operation on and from 1st September, 1924.
Dated this twenty-third day of July, 1924.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
THOS. W. CRAWFORD,
for the Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 378 of the Post and Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) there of the words “upon payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. for the first hour or portion thereof and 1s. 6d. for every subsequent hour or portion thereof,” and inserting in their stead the words “upon payment of a fee of one shilling and sixpence for each thirty minutes or portion thereof”;
(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) thereof after the words “one shilling” the words “and sixpence”; and
(c) by omitting sub-regulation (4) and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—
(4) Similar arrangements may be made at a semi-official or non-official office, where the person in charge is willing to give the necessary attendance, on payment of a fee not exceeding one shilling and sixpence for each thirty minutes or portion thereof during which it is desired that the office shall be kept open, in addition to the ordinary departmental charges for the transmission of telegrams.
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