POST AND TELEGRAPH.

No. 14 of 1916.

An Act to amend Section Seven of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913.

[Assented to 30th May, 1916.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Post and Telegraph Act 1916.

(2.) The Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916.

Amendment of s. 7.

2. Section seven of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “Provided that if the Governor-General notifies by proclamation that for the purposes of the administration of the Department any portion of a State or Territory is attached to any adjoining State, the Deputy Postmaster-General of that adjoining State shall be the principal officer of the Department in the portion so attached.”