STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 50.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.

Dated this 17th day of July, 1958.

Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(signed) C. W. Davidson

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.†

Re-direction and re-transmission of telegrams.

Regulation 57 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (4.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(4a.) The Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs may permit the re-transmission, without payment of the charges prescribed by sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, of telegrams included in a class of telegrams specified by him if he is of opinion that the re-transmission of those telegrams without payment of the charges so prescribed is in the public interest.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1958.

† 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; 1949, Nos. 19 and 91; 1950, No. 91; 1951, Nos. 23, 73 and 90; 1952, Nos. 6, 35 and 78; 1954, No. 5; 1955, No. 58; 1956, No. 69; 1957, No. 41; and 1958, No. 13.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

3167/58.—Price 3d. 9/13.5.1958.