STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 96.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

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 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-first day of August, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ARCHDALE PARKHILL

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

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

Regulation 144 is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) after the word “fastening”, the words “or from the unsuitability of the container having regard to the nature of its contents”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation compensation in respect of the following postal articles shall be payable only in the event of the loss of the entire postal article:—

(a) Articles on which a registration fee of not more than Threepence has been paid;

(b) “Cash on delivery” parcels on which only the prescribed commission has been paid;

and in the case of articles containing eggs, fish, meat, fruit, vegetables, glass, crockery, gramophone records, greases, liquids, semi-liquids, and any article of an exceptionally fragile nature, compensation shall not be payable in respect of damage of any kind to the contents or for loss of contents through liquefaction or through damage to or breakage of the container.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

2788.—Price 3d.