STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 38.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*

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 1901-1950.

Dated this first

day of  May , 1952.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of Larry Anthony

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Postal Regulations.†

Payment of customs duty by sender.

1. Regulation 212 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ at the rate of Two shillings for each Five shillings or fraction of Five shillings of the declared value of the parcel ” and inserting in their stead the words “ of such an amount as the Postmaster-General determines ”.

Payments to masters of vessels.

2. Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the table and inserting in its stead the following table :—

Conveyance of—

Rate of payment.

Letters and post cards in harbours and on rivers

Eightpence per pound

Mails (other than letters and post cards) in harbours and on rivers

One shilling and fourpence per hundredweight

Mails to places within the Commonwealth otherwise than in harbours and on rivers

Ten pounds per ton by weight

Mails to places beyond the Commonwealth—

 

Where the mails are to be conveyed up to three thousand miles

Eleven pounds ten shillings per ton by weight

Where the mails are to be conveyed over three thousand miles and up to six thousand miles

Twenty-two pounds six shilling and ninepence per ton by weight

Where the mails are to be conveyed over six thousand miles

Twenty-six pounds four shilling per ton by weight

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1952

† 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, 237 and 286 ; 1944, No. 145 ; 1945, No. 194 ; 1946, Nos. 131 and 149 ; 1947, Nos. 91 and 114 ; 1948, No. 62 ; 1949, Nos. 23, 30, 38 and 106 ; 1950, Nos. 49 and 93 ; and 1951, Nos. 22 and 72.

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

5472.—Price 3d. 10/4.3.1952.