STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 135.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*

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 1901-1934, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirty-first day of October, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. J. McLACHLAN

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Postal Regulations.

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

1. The Postal Regulations are amended by omitting the words “Deputy Postmaster-General” wherever occurring, and inserting in their stead the words “Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs”.

2. The Postal Regulations are amended by omitting regulation 205, and inserting the following regulation in its stead:—

“205. If the sender of a cash-on-delivery parcel makes written application in the required form for its return to him prior to its despatch from the office at which it was posted, such cash on delivery parcel shall, on payment of a fee of One shilling and three pence, and the surrender to the Department of the relative certificate of posting, be handed back to the sender, and, subject to the surrender at the time the cash-on-delivery parcel is so returned of the stamps affixed to the parcel in payment of postage and commission, the postage and commission paid shall be refunded to the sender.”

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1934.

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

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