STATUTORY RULES.
1905. No. 60.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rule No. 45 of 1905.)
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, namely:—
Registration: Compensation for Loss of Registered Articles,
to come into operation on the 9th day of October, 1905.
Dated this fourteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
REGISTRATION.
Compensation for loss of registered articles.
Regulation 3, under the above head, of the Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, published in the Commonwealth Gazette on the 5th of June, 1902, is hereby repealed, and the following Regulation substituted in lieu thereof:—
3.—(1) Evidence in support of a claim in respect of the loss of a registered article may be given by statutory declaration as follows:—
(a) A statutory declaration made by or on behalf of the claimant setting forth—
(i.) the date when and the place where the article was posted, so far as they can reasonably be ascertained,
(ii.) a description of the article and its value, so far as they are known to the claimant, and the fact of the loss, and
(iii.) any other particulars required by these regulations or tending to establish the loss of the article or to verify the claim made.
(b) A statutory declaration made by the addressee, or some person who is acquainted with the fact, that neither the registered article nor any enclosure therein has been received by the addressee.
(2.) The Postmaster-General or the Deputy Postmaster-General may, if he thinks fit, require additional evidence of the loss or value of the article.
By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.
C.9605.—Price 3d.