Post and Telegraph Amendment Act 1911
Post and Telegraph Amendment Act 1911
Post and Telegraph Amendment Act 1911
Public Act |
1911 No 24 |
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Date of assent |
28 October 1911 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1911, and shall form part of and be read together with the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Extended use of recording-machines.
(1.)
The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations prescribing the documents on which an impression indicating a stamp-value of any prescribed denomination may be made by the recording-machines mentioned in section sixteen of the principal Act, and the conditions under which such impressions may be made.
(2.)
The provisions of the said section sixteen shall extend and apply to all documents prescribed in any such regulation.
(3.)
For the purposes of this section “document”
means any writing on which a stamp denoting any duty is required to be affixed or impressed, and includes a cablegram.
3 Postmaster-General may issue licenses for wireless-telegraphy stations on ships registered in New Zealand.
(1.)
The Minister of Telegraphs may, in accordance with regulations to be made in that behalf by the Governor in Council, grant licenses for the installation and working of apparatus for wireless telegraphy (within the meaning of Part X of the principal Act) on board any ship registered in New Zealand, and whether on the high seas or in New Zealand waters.
(2.)
Subject to any such regulation, every such license shall be in such form and for such period, and shall contain such terms, conditions, and restrictions, as the Minister of Telegraphs thinks fit.
(3.)
The Governor may by Order in Council make such regulation as he thinks proper as to the granting of such licenses, and as to the form, period, terms, conditions, and restrictions thereof, and as to the fees payable in respect thereof.