Commonwealth Numbered Acts

POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1974 No. 61, 1974 - SECT 23

23. After section 64 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:-
Post Office Courier Service.

"64A. (1) In this section, 'article transmissible by courier service' means
any article transmissible by post and any other article that, under the
regulations, is transmissible by courier service.



"(2) The Postmaster-General may, subject to and in accordance with the
regulations, establish and operate a courier service (to be known as the 'Post
Office Courier Service'), being a service that provides for the collection, at
the request of a person using the service, of an article, being an article
transmissible by courier service, from a place specified by or on behalf of
the person and the conveyance and delivery of the article to another place so
specified.



"(3) The courier service so established may, subject to and in ac- cordance
with the regulations, provide for the collection from a post office of a
postal article transmitted by post to the post office and the conveyance and
delivery of the article to a place other than a post office, and for the
collection of a postal article from a place other than a post office and the
conveyance and delivery of that article to a post office and the lodging of
the article (on behalf of the person using the service) for transmission by
post to another place.



"(4) Any reference in section 13, 15, 17, 18, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116 or 158 to mails or to postal articles shall be read as
including a reference to courier postal articles and the reference in section
107 to the post shall be read as including a reference to the Post Office
Courier Service.



"(5) Sub-section (1) of section 98 does not apply to the sending or carriage
of a letter by the Post Office Courier Service.



"(6) Without limiting the generality of the power of the Governor-General to
make regulations under section 97, that power includes the power to make
regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters necessary
or convenient to be prescribed for and in relation to the establishment and
operation of the Post Office Courier Service and, in particular, regulations
prescribing the conditions of the receipt, conveyance and delivery of courier
postal articles.".