STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 57.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934.

Dated this tenth day of March, 1943

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of the Postmaster-General.

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.†

Regulation 192 of the Postal Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

Posting of Parcels.

“(5.) The following conditions apply in relation to a parcel tendered by or on behalf of a person in the course of a business carried on by that person, for posting, at the General Post Office in any State or at a post office situated within a radius of 50 miles of any such General Post Office, and addressed to a place in another State:—

(a) If the parcel contains any article the consignment of which, from the place where the post office at which the parcel is tendered is situated to the place of destination by road, rail, air or sea would, except in pursuance of a permit issued under the Regulation of Transport Order (made in pursuance of regulation 59 of the National Security (General) Regulations), be a contravention of that Order, the sender shall present for inspection by the postal official to whom the parcel is tendered for posting, a permit issued under that Order authorizing the person by or on whose behalf the parcel is tendered to consign that article for transport to the place of destination;

(b) If the parcel does not contain any article mentioned in paragraph (a) of this sub-regulation, the sender shall endorse the cover of the parcel “Transportation permit not required”, and shall sign and date the endorsement.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on       , 1943.

† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3 as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80 and 95; 1936, Nos. 50 and 113: 1937, Nos. 13, 35, 37 and 48; 1938, Nos. 2, 55, 94 and 100; 1939, Nos. 44, 57 and 66; 1940, Nos. 1 and 232; and 1942, Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 554.


“(6.) The provisions of the last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply in relation to a parcel addressed to—

(a) a member of any of the Armed Forces, or nursing services or women’s services auxiliary to the Armed Forces, of His Majesty or of any Power which is allied or associated with His Majesty in any war in which His Majesty is engaged; or

(b) a prisoner of war within the meaning of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations.

“(7.) A person shall not, in purported compliance with paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation, make or sign any endorsement which is false or misleading in any particular.

Penalty, for any contravention of this sub-regulation: Fifty pounds.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.