STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 4.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*

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 1901-1950.

Dated this 9th day of January, 1958.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations.†

After regulation 6a of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Carriage of postal articles across roads, footways, &c.

“6b.—(1.) Notwithstanding the provisions of a law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, an officer or servant of the Department may, in connexion with—

(a) the collection of postal articles from a post office or from a letter pillar or a box erected for the reception of postal articles; or

(b) the delivery of postal articles to a post office,

carry or place postal articles upon a public street, public road, public footway (whether forming part of a public street, public road or public place or not) or other public place.

Officers, &c., not to disobey certain directions given by policemen.

“6c. The last two preceding regulations do not authorize an officer or servant of the Department to disobey a direction given to him by a member of the police force of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, being a direction which, but for those regulations, the officer or servant would be required by a law of the State or Territory to obey.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th January, 1958.

† Statutory Rules 1933, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 136; 1938, No. 62; 1940, Nos. 101 and 156; 1951, No. 24; 1955, No. 57; and 1956, No. 84.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

6703/57.—Price 3d. 9/25.11.1957.