STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No. 91.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1946.*

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 1901-1946.

Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1949.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. CAMERON

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Telegraph Regulations.†

What constitutes code.

1. Regulation 23 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) Combinations or alterations of words contrary to the usage of the language, and combinations of letters such as FOB, CIFE, OK, AM, PM, AIF, RAAF, HMS and HMAS, shall be treated as code.”.

Repeal of regulations 35 and 36.

2. Regulations 35 and 36 of the Telegraph Regulations are repealed.

Telephoning of telegrams by subscribers.

3. Regulation 75 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (5) and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraph:—

“(i) a fee of Twopence; and”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th November, 1949.

† 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; 1944, No. 91; 1945, No. 10; 1946, No. 139; 1948, No. 23; and 1949, No. 19.

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

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