✨ Postal Regulations Order in Council
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1862.
POSTAL.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
Making Regulations for the Management of
Post Offices.
G. GREY,
Governor.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCK-
LAND, ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1862.
Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, by the "New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," power is given to
the Governor in Council from time to time
to make Rules and Regulations for the mana-
ging of the several Post Offices of the said
Colony; for the receiving, despatching, con-
veying, and delivering of Letters (including
the imposition of Fees for private boxes and
deliveries); for the detaining, opening, and
return, or other disposal of irregularly posted,
unclaimed, and refused letters, or such as from
any cause whatsoever cannot be delivered or
forwarded, and the contents thereof respec-
tively, and for the publication of the Lists of
the same; for the making, custody, and sale of
Postage Labels; for the receiving and paying
of money in connection with the said Postal
Service; and for the conduct of Post Officers;
and any such Rules and Regulations at any
time in force to alter, vary, or revoke: and, for
the purpose of giving effect to the Rules and
Regulations so to be made, further power is
given to the Governor in Council by the said
Act to impose any penalty not exceeding Ten
Pounds for any one offence against such Rules
and Regulations:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
of the said recited power and authority, Doth
by this present Order, by and with the consent
of the Executive Council, Revoke all Regula-
tions heretofore in force, and Make the Rules
and Regulations specified in the Schedule
hereinafter written, and Doth Impose the
Penalties for the infraction thereof respectively
as therein set forth;
And Doth further Declare that this Order
shall take effect from the First day of April,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
J. HOLT,
Clerk of the Executive Council..
SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.
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From and after the first day of April,
1862, all Regulations which may be now in force
for the guidance of Postmasters, or for the
management of Post Offices in New Zealand,
are hereby cancelled and annulled. -
All persons employed in the Post Office
Department are required to make themselves
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Postal Service, Regulations, Post Offices, Fees, Penalties, Executive Council
- G. Grey, Governor
- J. Holt, Clerk of the Executive Council