Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Act 1983 (Cth)

Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Act 1983

No. 147 of 1983

An Act to amend the Postal Services Act 1975 and the Telecommunications Act 1975, and for other purposes

[Assented to 22 December 1983]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title, &c. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Act 1983. (2) The Postal Services Act 19751 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF POSTAL SERVICES ACT

Interpretation 3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by inserting in the definition of "mail" in sub-section (1) ", by courier service or by electronic mail service" after "post"; (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "postal article" and substituting the following definition: " 'postal article' means an article transmissible by— (a) the post; (b) the courier service; or (c) an electronic mail service;"; and (c) by omitting from paragraph (2) (c) "through the post".

Powers of the Commission 4. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by omitting from paragraph (3) (d) "but not required for the purposes of the Commission"; and (b) by omitting from paragraph (3) (e) "the use of which is not for the time being required by the Commission".

5. After section 9 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Courier Service "10. (1) The Commission may operate a 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 in Australia specified by or on behalf of the person and the conveyance and delivery of the article to another place in Australia that is so specified. "(2) The courier service may, subject to and in accordance with the By-laws, provide for— (a) the collection from an office of the Commission of a postal article transmitted by post to the office of the Commission and the conveyance and delivery of the article to a place other than an office of the Commission; and (b) the collection of a postal article from a place other than an office of the Commission and the conveyance and delivery of the article to an office of the Commission and the lodging of the article (on behalf of the person using the service) for transmission by post to another place. "(3) In this section, 'article transmissible by courier service' means an article transmissible by post and any other article that, under the By-laws, is transmissible by courier service.