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

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of 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 twenty-fourth day of January, 1945.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. P. ASHLEY

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.†

1.—(1.) Regulation 36 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Counting of expressions FOB, &c.

“36. If any of the expressions ‘FOB’, ‘CIFE’, ‘OK’, ‘AM’, ‘PM’, ‘AIF’, ‘RAAF’, ‘HMS’ or ‘HMAS’ is written as one word, it shall be treated as code, but, if the letters in any such expression are written separately, they shall be counted and charged at the rate of one word for each letter.”.

(2.) This regulation shall come into operation on the twenty-second day of January, 1945.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25th January, 1945.

† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 35, 88 and 97; 1929, Nos. 15 and 128; 1930, Nos. 1, 5, 42, 81, 114 and 129; 1931, Nos. 70, 132 and 136; 1933, Nos. 102 and 127; 1934, Nos. 24, 113 and 137; 1935, No. 77; 1938, No. 63; 1939, Nos. 14 and 84; 1940, Nos. 50, 87 and 102; 1942, No. 550; 1943, Nos. 215 and 242; and 1944, No. 91.

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

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