Commonwealth Numbered Acts

POSTAL SERVICES ACT 1975 No. 54, 1975 - SECT 14

14. (1) Payment of postage in respect of the transmission of a postal article
may be made-

   (a)  in circumstances prescribed by the By-laws-in money; or

   (b)  except as otherwise provided by the By-laws-by affixing to the article
        uncancelled postage stamps issued by the Commission and indicating an
        amount of postage equal to or greater than the amount of the postage
        payable in respect of the transmission of the article, but not
        otherwise.

(2) An envelope, letter-card, aerogramme or other article on which the
Commission has caused to be impressed or printed a representation of, or a
design resembling, a postage stamp indicating an amount of postage shall be
deemed to have affixed to it a postage stamp issued by the Commission
indicating that amount of postage.

(3) Where an envelope, letter-card, aerogramme or other article has impressed
or printed on it a representation of, or a design resembling, a postage stamp
of a kind issued by the Commission, it shall, for all purposes, be presumed,
unless the contrary is established, that the Commission caused the
representation or design to be so impressed or printed on it.

(4) Where payment of postage may be made in money, the By-laws may prescribe
conditions to which that payment is subject.

(5) The following postal articles may be transmitted by the Commission by
ordinary post free of charge:-

   (a)  a petition or address to the Governor-General or to the Governor of a
        State, being a petition or address the weight of which does not exceed
        500 grams and which is posted without a cover or in a cover that is
        open at the ends or the sides;

   (b)  a Braille postal article, a Moon postal article or a postal article
        for the use of the blind of a kind prescribed by the regulations,
        being an article posted as provided in the regulations; and

   (c)  a postal article issued by the Commission to persons using the postal
        services provided by the Commission for purposes connected with those
        services (including an article notifying a change of address), being
        an article marked in a manner determined by the Commission.

(6) A postal article, being-

   (a)  official correspondence from the Commission relating to the postal
        services provided by the Commission; or

   (b)  a postal article received by post from outside Australia (not being a
        postal article in respect of which fees are required to be collected
        by virtue of a convention or of a provision of the By-laws), may be
        transmitted by the Commission by post free of charge.