STATUTORY RULES
1971 No. 177
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1971.*
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 1901-1971.
Dated this twenty-second day of December, 1971.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ALAN HULME
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Postal Regulations†
1.—(1.) Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Payments for carriage of mail on vessels.
“258.—(1.) For the purposes of sub-section (7.) of section 67 of the Act, the rate in respect of the carriage of mail on a vessel to a port or place within Australia is Twenty-nine dollars fifty cents per ton by weight.
“(2.) For the purposes of sub-section (7.) of section 67 of the Act, the rates in respect of the carriage of mail on a vessel to a port or place without Australia are as set out in the following table:—
Circumstances | Rate per ton of mail by weight |
| $ |
For the carriage of mail for not more than 3,000 Admiralty nautical miles............. | 53.93 |
For the carriage of mail for more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 Admiralty nautical miles | 104.73 |
For the carriage of mail for more than 6,000 Admiralty nautical miles................ | 122.60 |
(2.) Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations, as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, applies to and in relation to the carriage of mail taken on board a vessel on or after the first day of October, 1971.
Transitional.
2. For the purposes of sub-section (7.) of section 67 of the Act, where, during the period from and including the first day of January, 1971, to and including the thirtieth day of September, 1971, mail was taken on board a vessel for carriage to a port or place without Australia, the rate in respect of the carriage is—
(a) where the mail was carried not more than 3,000 Admiralty nautical miles—Forty-nine dollars’ seventy-nine cents per ton by weight;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 23 December 1971.
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3 as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80 and 95; 1936, Nos. 50 and 113; 1937, Nos. 13, 35, 37 and 48; 1938, Nos. 2, 55, 94 and 100; 1939, Nos. 44, 57 and 66; 1940, Nos. 1 and 232; 1942, Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 554; 1943, Nos. 59, 94, 122, 237 and 286; 1944, No. 145; 1945, No. 194; 1946, Nos. 131 and 149; 1947, Nos. 91 and 114; 1948, No. 62; 1949, Nos. 23, 30, 38 and 106; 1950, Nos. 49 and 93; 1951, Nos. 22 and 72; 1952, No. 38; 1953, No. 81; 1954, No. 52; 1955, No. 28; 1956, Nos. 31 and 67; 1957, No. 38; 1959, Nos. 7, 21, 26, 63 and 85; 1960, Nos. 75 and 103; 1962, Nos. 106 and 117; 1963, No. 35; 1964, Nos. 124 and 125; 1965 No. 100; 1966, Nos. 24 and 89; 1967, Nos. 131 and 148; 1966, No. 113; 1969, No. 26; 1970, Nos. 25, 83 and 122; and Acts No. 63, 1967; No. 63, 1970; and No. 70, 1971.
22682/71—Price 5c
(b) where the mail was carried more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 Admiralty nautical miles—Ninety-six dollars sixty-nine cents per ton by weight; or
(c) where the mail was carried more than 6,000 Admiralty nautical miles—One hundred and thirteen dollars nineteen cents per ton by weight.
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