✨ Mail Contractor Regulations
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In the case of contractors who have a general policy
covering employees other than those engaged in mail-carrying,
it will be sufficient if the Chief Postmaster obtains a certificate
from the insurance company concerned that all employees are
so covered. The certificate should, of course, be renewed from
year to year. -
The Government Insurance Department will only
issue policies to provide compensation for accidents about mail
contracts covering the whole number of the persons employed
by a mail contractor. The Post Office may, if desired, hold
the contractor's policy. Should the Post Office wish to have a
memo. from the Insurance Department giving the nature of the
cover held by a postal contractor, this would be supplied, and an
assurance given, if desired, that the policy would not be cancelled or allowed to run out without the Post Office being first
advised. The Insurance Department must, however, be informed in such cases, as otherwise it may not be aware that
the Post Office is interested. -
Mail contractors are not obliged to insure themselves
against accident under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act. Chief Postmasters will inform tenderers for mailservices who intend as a general rule to personally perform
the service, that they must not place a substitute in charge of
the work of mail-carrying without first taking out a policy of
insurance and indemnity against accident for such substitute,
as provided in the case of workers under clause 27 of the Terms
and Conditions. -
A Postmaster must require the strictest regularity
in the running of mail-services, and make a special report when
the loss of time is serious or frequent. -
No mail contractor, or other person employed in the
conveyance of mails, may convey a letter from one place to
another except for the purpose of posting it at a post-office,
or, when received from a post-office, for the purpose of delivering it on the line of route. All letters so conveyed are liable
to postage, and if not prepaid must be charged double the deficient
postage. Mail-carriers are not allowed to make any charge
beyond the postage for conveying letters handed to them for
posting by settlers at a distance of more than two miles from a
post-office. -
Mail contractors are entitled to the payment of £1
per annum for every private bag conveyed along their line of
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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