STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 122.

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934.

Dated this fifth day of May, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.†

Re-direction of parcels.

1. Regulation 207 of the Postal Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following proviso:—

“Provided that, where the addressee of a parcel is a member of the Defence Force or of any other Forces of the King or of the Forces of any foreign Power allied or associated with His Majesty in any war in which His Majesty is engaged, a charge for re-direction of the parcel shall not be made.”.

Parcels posted in Commonwealth and undelivered.

2. Regulation 208 of the Postal Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2.) the following proviso:—

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943

† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80, 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.

1875.—Price 3d. 20/24.3.1943.

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) all the words after the word “which” (second occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “the parcels shall—

(a) if addressed to a member of the Defence Force or of any other Forces of the King or of any Forces of a foreign Power allied or associated with His Majesty in any war in which His Majesty is engaged, be disposed of as the Postmaster-General directs; or

(b) if addressed to any other person, be sold by public auction or destroyed as determined by the Deputy Director”.

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