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section—
     'document' includes—
         (a) a book, plan, paper, parchment or other material on which there is writing or printing, or on which there are marks, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and
         (b) a disc, tape, paper or other device from which sounds or messages are capable of being reproduced;
     'prescribed user' means—
         (a) a postal administration of a foreign country; or
         (b) a person or body declared by the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, to be a prescribed user for the purposes of this section.".

Commission may act as agent, &c.
6. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:
"(2) Subject to sub-section (3), the Commission may make an arrangement with any person for the Commission to do, on behalf of the person, any acts or things referred to, or any acts or things included in a class or classes of acts or things referred to, in the arrangement, being acts or things that can conveniently be done in conjunction with the performance of the functions of the Commission.
"(3) Sub-section (2) does not authorize the Commission to make an arrangement for the Commission to do any acts or things unless—
     (a) the acts or things are to be done in a Territory;
     (b) the acts or things are to be done in a Commonwealth place as defined by the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970;
     (c) the acts or things to be done are to take place in the course of, or in relation to—
         (i) trade or commerce between Australia and places outside Australia;
         (ii) trade or commerce among the States;
         (iii) trade or commerce within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between 2 Territories;
         (iv) banking, other than State banking within the limits of the State concerned; or
         (v) insurance, other than State insurance within the limits of the State concerned; or
     (d) the person making the arrangement with the Commission is—
         (i) a foreign corporation within the meaning of paragraph 51 (xx) of the Constitution;
         (ii) a trading or financial corporation within the meaning of that paragraph formed within the limits of the Commonwealth; or

         (iii) a body corporate incorporated in a Territory.
"(4) The doing by the Commission of any act or thing pursuant to an arrangement under this section shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission determines.".

When postage need not be pre-paid
7. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
"(4) Nothing in this section prevents the Commission from—
     (a) making arrangements with a person under