STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 26.

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 ninth day of April, 1959

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.†

Regulation 60 of the Postal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Payment of postage otherwise than by sender.

“60.—(1.) The Postmaster-General may, in such cases and upon compliance with such conditions as he thinks fit, authorize the payment of the postage payable on postal articles by a person other than the sender of those articles.

“(2.) The conditions referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation may, for the purpose of defraying the cost of providing the service, include a provision that the person by whom the amount is payable shall pay—

(a) a surcharge of One half-penny in respect of each postal article; or

(b) a surcharge of one-fifth of the amount of postage payable,

as the Postmaster-General specifies in the conditions.

“(3.) Where the postage payable on postal articles is to be paid by a Department of State of the Commonwealth or by an authority of the Commonwealth, the conditions referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation may include provision that the amount of the postage shall be ascertained in a manner directed by the Postmaster-General in the conditions.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th April 1959.

† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended.

8122/58.—Price 3d. 9/21.11.1958.

“(4.) A person shall not send by post to any other person an article intended to be posted by that last-mentioned person bearing an inscription to the effect that, if that article is posted by that last-mentioned person, the postage will be paid by a person other than that last-mentioned person, unless the Postmaster-General has, in pursuance of this regulation, allowed payment by a person other than the sender of the postage payable on that article.

“(5.) A person shall not knowingly post an article bearing an inscription to the effect that the postage will be paid by a person other than the sender, unless the Postmaster-General has, in pursuance of this regulation, allowed payment by a person other than the sender of the postage payable on that article.

Penalty: Five pounds.”.

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