STATUTORY RULES.
1965 No. 100
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961.*
I, THE Administrator of the Government 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 thirty-first day of July, 1965.
HENRY ABEL SMITH
Administrator
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
Amendments of the Postal Regulations.†
1. Regulation 116 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Repurchase of stamps, etc.
“116.—(1.) Postage stamps may be repurchased by the Commonwealth at a General Post Office if—
(a) the postage stamps have not been marked with an official postmark and are in good order and condition;
(b) the stamps are affixed to a sheet or to sheets of paper, with not less than two, and not more than sixty, stamps affixed to each sheet of paper; and
(c) all the stamps affixed to one sheet of paper are stamps of the same value.
“(2.) Envelopes, wrappers and other papers on which an impression of a postage stamp appears, or has been embossed, may be repurchased by the Commonwealth at a General Post Office if the impressions have not been marked with an official postmark and are in good order and condition.
“(3.) The amount payable by the Commonwealth is an amount equal to the face value of the stamps less a discount of—
(a) if the face value of the stamps is Ten pounds or does not exceed Ten pounds—an amount equal to ten per centum of the face value or Five shillings, whichever is the greater;
(b) if the face value of the stamps exceeds Ten pounds but does not exceed Twenty pounds—an amount equal to seven and one-half per centum of the face value; or
(c) if the face value of the stamps exceeds Twenty pounds—an amount equal to five per centum of the face value.”.
Repurchase of envelopes, etc., bearing impressed stamps.
2. Regulation 118 of the Postal Regulations is repealed.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5 August, 1965.
† 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. 57, 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; 1939, Nos. 7. 21, 26, 63 and 85; 1960, Nos. 75 and 103; 1962, Nos. 106 and 117; 1963, No. 35; and 1964, Nos. 124 and 125.
By Authority: A. J. Author, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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