STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 4.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE person administering the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

SOMERS

Administering the Government of the

Commonwealth of Australia.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. LYONS

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 144, as amended to this date.)

1. The following regulation is inserted after regulation 18:—

18a. Any person who places or causes to be placed in or upon a publication which has not been registered at a General Post Office for transmission through the post as a book, as a periodical, or as a newspaper, as the case may be, an inscription likely to give the impression that such publication has been so registered shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty, £50.

2. Regulation 142 is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of section (1.) the words “wax, gum, or other adhesive substance” and inserting in their stead the words “some adhesive substance”.

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

3429.—Price 3d.