STATUTORY RULES.
1909. No. 71.
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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—
General Postal Regulations,
Payment of Postage by the Receiver,
should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated this 21st day of June, One thousand nine hundred and nine.
DUDLEY,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN QUICK.
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General Postal Regulations.
Payment of Postage by the Receiver.
The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 are amended by inserting therein, under the head “General Postal Regulations—Payment of Postage by the Receiver,” the following sub-head and Regulation:—
Old-age Pensions Correspondence.
“Postal articles addressed to Registrars in connexion with Commonwealth Old-age Pensions, and enclosed in the official envelopes of any Commonwealth or State Department, bearing the indorsement ‘Commonwealth Old-age Pensions,’ may, if posted within the Commonwealth of Australia, be sent by post without prepayment of postage, but the postage thereon at prepaid rates shall be paid by the Commissioner of Pensions for the Commonwealth.”
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