STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 24

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961.*

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 1901-1961.

Dated this third day of February, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Signature of Postmaster-General 

 

 

 

Postmaster-General.

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Amendments of the Postal Regulations

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.

2. The Postal Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 117 the following regulation:—

Repurchase of stamps issued in former currency.

“ 118.—(1.) The last two preceding regulations apply in relation to the repurchase by the Commonwealth of postage stamps indicating an amount in the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1909-1947 during the period from and including the fourteenth day of February, 1966, to and including the thirteenth day of February, 1971, but no longer.

“ (2.) For the purposes of ascertaining the amount in the currency provided for by the Currency Act 1965 that is payable by the Commonwealth in respect of the repurchase of postage stamps indicating an amount in the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1909-1947, the references in the last two preceding regulations to the face value of those stamps shall, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, be taken to be references to the equivalent amount in the currency provided for by the Currency Act 1965, calculated on the basis of the equivalents specified in sub-section (4.) of section 8 of the Currency Act 1965.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                             , 1966.

† 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; 1951, Nos. 22 and 72; 1952, No. 38; 1953, No. 81; 1954, No. 52; 1955, No. 28; 1953, Nos. 31 and 67; 1957. No. 38; 1959, Nos. 7, 21, 26, 63 and 85; 1960, Nos. 75 and 103; 1962, Nos. 106 and 117; 1963, No. 35; 1964, Nos. 124 and 125; and 1965, No. 100.

13965/55.—Price 9d. (8c) 9/7.1.1966


“ (3.) Where the face value of those stamps is an amount of pounds, shillings and pence, pounds and pence or shillings and pence, the equivalent amount in the currency provided for by the Currency Act 1965 shall be calculated on the basis that an amount of pence specified in the first column in the table set out in sub-section (3.) of section 11 of the Currency Act 1965 corresponds to the amount of cents specified in the second column of that table opposite to that amount of pence.”.

Denominations and poundage.

3. Regulation 247 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the table and inserting in its stead the following table:—

Denomination

Poundage

Denomination

Poundage

$

Cents

$

Cents

0.10

2

0.50

3

0.15

2

0.55

3

0.20

2

0.60

3

0.25

2

0.75

3

0.30

2

1.00

5

0.35

2

1.50

5

0.40

2

2.00

5

0.45

2

 

 

 

 

 

Payment to masters of vessels.

4. 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

Mails to places within the Commonwealth......

Twenty dollars per ton by weight

Mails to places beyond the Commonwealth—

 

where the mails are to be conveyed not more than 2,999 miles

Forty-six dollars and seventy-one cents per ton by weight

where the mails are to be conveyed more than 2,999 miles but not more than 6,000 miles

Ninety dollars and seventy-four cents per ton by weight

where the mails are to be conveyed more than 6,000 miles

One hundred and six dollars and twenty cents per ton by weight

 

 

 

 

General amendments.

5. The Postal Regulations, as amended by the foregoing provisions of these Regulations, are amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.


THE SCHEDULE. Regulation 5.

Amendments

Provision amended

Amendment

Regulation 4.......

Omit “ Threepence ”, insert “ Three cents ”.

Regulation 22......

Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “ penny ”, insert “ cent ”.

Regulation 60......

Omit from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) “ penny ”, insert “ cent ”.

Regulation 91a.....

Omit from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) “ One shilling and threepence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ”.

 

Omit from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) “ One shilling and threepence ” and “ Ninepence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ” and “ Eight cents ”, respectively.

 

Omit from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) “ One shilling and threepence ”, “ Ninepence ” and  “Sixpence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ”, “ Eight cents ” and “ Five cents ”, respectively.

 

Omit from sub-regulation (3.) “ One shilling and threepence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ”.

Regulation 91b.....

Omit “ One shilling and threepence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ”.

Regulation 115.....

Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “ One pound ”, “ 1/2d. to 5s.” and “ 5s.”, insert “ Two dollars ”, “ One cent to Fifty cents ”and “ Fifty cents ”, respectively.

Regulation 123b....

Omit from paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-regulation (4.) “ Threepence ”, insert “ Two cents ”.

 

Omit from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (4.) “ Threepence ” and “ Sixpence ”, insert “ Two cents ” and “ Five cents ”, respectively.

Regulation 174.....

Omit from sub-regulation (1.) “ Ninepence ”, insert “ Eight cents ”.

Regulation 176e.....

Omit from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) “ Ninepence ”, insert “ Eight cents ”.

Regulation 196.....

Omit “ Ninepence ”, insert “ Eight cents ”.

Regulation 203.....

Omit “ One shilling and threepence ”, insert “ Twelve cents ”.

Regulation 205.....

Omit from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (I.) “ Sixpence ”, insert “ Five cents ”.

 

Omit from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) “ Sixpence ” and “ Ninepence ”, insert “ Five cents ” and “ Eight cents ”, respectively.

Regulation 213a.....

Omit from sub-regulation (3.) “ penny ”, insert “ cent ”.

Regulation 226.....

Omit sub-regulation (1.), insert the following sub-regulation:—

 

“ (1.) The rates of commission chargeable for the issue of money orders are—

 

(a) in respect of a money order payable in the Commonwealth —Twelve cents for the first Ten dollars or part of Ten dollars and Eight cents for each additional Ten dollars or part of Ten dollars; and

 

(b) in respect of a money order payable otherwise than in the Commonwealth—

 

(i) if the amount for which the money order is issued docs not exceed Four dollars—Twelve cents; or

 

(ii) if the amount for which the money order is issued exceeds Four dollars—Five cents for each Two dollars or part of Two dollars.”.

Regulation 227.....

Omit “ penny ”, insert “ cent ”.

 

 

 

 

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