STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No.  .

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 twenty-third day of July, 1947.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Postal Regulations. †

Regulation 148 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Refund on discontinuance.

“148.—(1.) Where a person relinquishes the use of a private mail-bag service before the expiration of the period for which the prescribed fee has been paid, he shall, upon application, be refunded such part of the fee paid by him (less one shilling) as is attributable to the period remaining after the end of the quarter during which the bag service is relinquished:

Provided that a refund shall not be made to a person in respect of any period commencing earlier than twelve months after the date on which the bag service was first rented by him.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘quarter’ means any period of three months commencing on the first day of the months of January, April, July or October in any year.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

† 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; 1942. Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 554; 1943, Nos. 57, 94, 122 and 286; 1944, No. 145; 1945, No. 194; and 1946, Nos. 131 and 149.

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

2349.—Price 3d. 9/14.4.1947.