STATUTORY RULES.
1907 No. 11.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the undermentioned amended regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—
General Postal Regulations: Private Mail Bags,
should come into immediate operation, and to make the amended regulations to come into operation forthwith as provisional regulations.
Dated this nineteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seven.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
General Postal Regulations.
Private Mail Bags.
The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 are amended as follows:—
(a) By substituting the following regulation in place of regulation 1:—
1. The charge for a private mail bag made up and despatched from a Post Office by mail-man, shall be £1 per annum if made up and despatched not more than thrice a week; or, £2 per annum if made up and despatched more than thrice a week; provided, however, that the charge for making up bags conveyed from and to a Post Office by a private messenger instead of by a mail-man, shall be £1 per annum if made up not more than once daily, or £2 per annum if made up more than once daily.
The charge in each case shall be payable in advance.
C. 3055.—Price 3d.
(b) By adding thereto the following new regulation:—
8. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing regulations, Institutions, persons or firms whose premises are not situated on a mail route may have private bags (to be conveyed only by private messenger) made up at an annual cost of £1 if made up not more than once daily, or £2 if made up more than once daily. For bags of this kind, made up at the General Post Office, lockers—in which they will be deposited after ordinary office hours—will be provided at the General Post Office for an annual rental of £2 per annum.
The charge in each case shall be payable in advance, and the provisions of the foregoing regulations 2 to 6 inclusive shall also apply.
By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.