STATUTORY RULES
1966 No. 26
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961 AND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1950.*
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 under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1961 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1950.
Dated this third day of February, 1966.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
Amendments of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.
Loitering in Post Offices.
2. Regulation 4 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting the symbol and figure “ £5 ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Ten dollars ”.
Production of documents.
3. Regulation 5 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “ One guinea ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Two dollars and ten cents ”.
Business outside normal hours.
4. Regulation 8 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) and paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “ One shilling and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Fifteen cents ”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2a.) the words “ One pound ten shillings ” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “ Three dollars ”; and
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazelle on 10th February, 1966.
† Statutory Rules 1933, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 136; 1938, No. 62; 1940, Nos. 101 and 156; 1951, No. 24; 1955, No. 57; 1956, No. 84; 1958, No. 4; 1959, Nos. 86 and 102; and 1963, No. 50.
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(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “ One shilling and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Fifteen cents ”.
Interference with property of Postmaster-General.
5. Regulation 8a of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (6.) the words “ Ten shillings ” and “ Ten pounds ” and inserting in their stead the words “ One dollar ” and “ Twenty dollars ”, respectively.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.