Div 1Postage

Division 1—Postage Issue and sale of postage stamps. 13. The Commission shall issue and sell postage stamps indicating such amounts of postage as the Commission deems appropriate. Payment of postage. 14. (1) Payment of postage in respect of the transmission of a postal article may be made— (a) in circumstances prescribed by the By-laws—in money; or (b) except as otherwise provided by the By-laws—by affixing to the article uncancelled postage stamps issued by the Commission and indicating an amount of postage equal to or greater than the amount of the postage payable in respect of the transmission of the article, but not otherwise. (2) An envelope, letter-card, aerogramme or other article on which the Commission has caused to be impressed or printed a representation of, or a design resembling, a postage stamp indicating an amount of postage shall be deemed to have affixed to it a postage stamp issued by the Commission indicating that amount of postage. (3) Where an envelope, letter-card, aerogramme or other article has impressed or printed on it a representation of, or a design resembling, a postage stamp of a kind issued by the Commission, it shall, for all purposes, be presumed, unless the contrary is established, that the Commission caused the representation or design to be so impressed or printed on it. (4) Where payment of postage may be made in money, the By-laws may prescribe conditions to which that payment is subject. (5) The following postal articles may be transmitted by the Commission by ordinary post free of charge: — (a) a petition or address to the Governor-General or to the Governor of a State, being a petition or address the weight of which does not exceed 500 grams and which is posted without a cover or in a cover that is open at the ends or the sides; (b) a Braille postal article, a Moon postal article or a postal article for the use of the blind of a kind prescribed by the regulations, being an article posted as provided in the regulations; and (c) a postal article issued by the Commission to persons using the postal services provided by the Commission for purposes connected with those services (including an article notifying a change of address), being an article marked in a manner determined by the Commission. (6) A postal article, being— (a) official correspondence from the Commission relating to the postal services provided by the Commission; or (b) a postal article received by post from outside Australia (not being a postal article in respect of which fees are required to be collected by virtue of a convention or of a provision of the By\-laws), may be transmitted by the Commission by post free of charge. When postage need not be pre-paid. 15. (1) The Commission may make arrangements with a person under which the postage payable in respect of postal articles to which the arrangement applies posted by that person may be paid by that person after the articles have been posted. (2) The Commission may make an arrangement with a person under which the postage payable in respect of postal articles to which the arrangement applies posted by another person is to be paid by that first-mentioned person after the articles have been posted. (3) Postal articles to which an arrangement under this section applies may be transmitted and delivered before the postage is paid. Postal articles on which postage insufficiently pre-paid. 16. (1) Where the postage is not fully pre-paid on a postal article posted for delivery in Australia, the Commission is entitled to be paid, as a condition of delivery, such fee, in addition to the amount of the postage or of the deficient postage payable in respect of the transmission of the article, as is payable in accordance with a determination made by the Commission. (2) For the purposes of this section, where the postage is paid in full in respect of a postal article in accordance with an arrangement of a kind referred to in section 15 that is applicable to the article, the postage in respect of that postal article shall be deemed to have been fully pre-paid. Postage stamps to be valuable securities. 17. A postage stamp, and any document issued by the Commission in respect of the transmission of moneys through the post, shall each be deemed to be a valuable security for the purposes of any law with respect to larceny.