(3) With the consent of the Postmaster General any private box service may be let jointly to two or more persons, and in every such case the fee for such service shall be seventy-five per cent of the fee prescribed by paragraphs (1) and (2) and shall be payable by each such person.
(4) (4) The Postmaster General shall supply free of charge to every lessee of a private box one key thereto and, on application and payment of a fee of five dollars for each key, such additional keys as may be required, and no key other than those supplied by the Postmaster General shall be used with any such box.
(b) The applicant for every private bag service shall supply to the Postmaster General for use in such service two bags each bag to be fitted with a lock, one key to which shall be delivered to the Postmaster General for retention by him during the continuance of such service.
(5) Every key supplied for use with any private box shall remain the property of the Postmaster General and shall be returnable to him on termination of the rental of the box in question; and every key supplied to the Postmaster General for use with any private bag service shall remain the property of the supplier thereof and shall be returnable by the Postmaster General on request by the supplier or on termination of the service.
(6) Where during the currency of any rental period any lessee of a private box requires that the lock thereof be changed, the Postmaster General→→→
(a) upon application in writing; and
(b) upon payment of the sum of fifteen dollars; and
(c) upon return of every key supplied for use therewith,
or payment of the sum of five dollars in lieu for each such key not returned,
shall cause such lock to be changed for another lock and shall supply therewith, free of charge, one key to each lessee of such box.".
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
and December, 1958.
Ls:
Clerk of Councils.
Explanatory Nole.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but je intended to indicate their general purport).
The purpose of these regulations is to amend regulation 15 of the Post Office Regulations which deals with the letting of private boxes and to introduce provision for private bag services.
The effect of these regulations will be to increase the annual fees payable for boxes and proscribe an annual fee of thirty six dollars for bag services. Provision is also made for the supply of boxes and bags and the keys therefor. These regulations will abolish monthly hirings of boxes and will provide that all hirings shall be for not less than one year in the first instance renewable thereafter at the discretion of the Postmaster General, either annually or three monthly. Similar provision is made in the case of bag services. Provision is also made for the sharing of boxes by different addressess if desired.
(Secretariat GR7/3611/47)