Commonwealth legislation

Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

35 of 1904

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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What it does: This regulation sets the geographic boundaries for cheaper "town and suburban" postage and telegraph rates.

Who it affects: Anyone sending letters or telegrams within Australian cities and towns.

The rules:

Capital cities: You pay the cheaper local rate if you're posting within 13 miles of the General Post Office.
Other towns: You get the cheaper rate if you're within a distance calculated as 1 mile for every 3,000 residents (for example, a town of 9,000 people gets a 3-mile radius). This distance can never exceed 8 miles.

Important protection: If your town already had a bigger boundary for cheap rates before this rule started, this regulation won't shrink that boundary back down.

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Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional)

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STATUTORY RULES.

No. 35.

POSTAL REGULATIONS.

View image in the official sourceTown and Suburban Letters.

The limits within which the rates for town and suburban letters and telegrams have effect shall be—

(a) In the case of the capital city of a State, the area within a radius not exceeding 13 miles from the General Post Office of the State ; and

(b) In the case of any other city or town, the area within a radius, from the principal post office of the city or town, of 1 mile for every 3,000 inhabitants of the city or town and its suburbs ; but not exceeding in any case a distance of 8 miles from such principal post office.

Nothing in this Regulation shall diminish any limits within which the rates for town and suburban letters were in force at the commencement of this Regulation.

View image in the official sourceBy Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.

C.6253.—Price 3d.

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