STATUTORY RULES.

1927 No. 84.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this third day of August, 1927.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 67 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead)—

“67. Impressed stamps cut from stamped envelopes, letter cards, post cards or wrappers, or duty stamps, mutilated postage stamps, postage due stamps, or the postage stamps of any country other than the Commonwealth, shall not be accepted as valid for the prepayment or part prepayment of postage.”

2. After regulation 67 the following regulation is inserted:—

“67a. The stamped wrappers (bearing the words “Newspaper only”) sold by the Department may not be used for the wrapping of articles other than newspapers registered in the Commonwealth for transmission at the rate of postage prescribed for newspapers, and any article other than a newspaper so registered posted in any such wrapper shall, whether the words “Newspaper only” have been obliterated or not, be treated as an article upon which the postage is wholly unpaid.”

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.10075.—Price 3d.