Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2301

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Postal Services Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Postal Services Act 1975.

Dated 15 September 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

N. A. BROWN

Minister of State for Communications

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The Postal Services Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 53 the following regulation:

Prohibition on sending matter of an indecent, obscene or offensive nature

“53a. A person shall not knowingly send by post an article consisting of, containing or displaying on the outside of its envelope, wrapping or other cover, matter not solicited by the person to whom it is sent, being matter of an indecent, obscene or offensive nature.

Penalty: $200 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 130 as amended by 1977 No. 53; 1981 No. 151; 1982 No. 147.