- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 1 January 2021

[TEL 12,550] Compound words and names84

(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations as to the maximum length of words, the following rules shall apply to words occurring in the text, address or signature—

(a)ordinary compound words and names shall, when written without a break, be counted as single words, but when written with a hyphen, apostrophe or other sign, shall be counted as separate words;
(b)in the case of names of towns, provinces, countries, squares, boulevards, streets, and similar thoroughfares and towns, and of ships, and of surnames belonging to one person the foregoing rule shall apply even where the ordinary usage of the language does not sanction the name without break.

(2) In the address the following expressions, whatever the number of words or letters employed to express them, shall each be counted as one word—

(a)the name of the telegraph office of destination, including any indication of the country, State, province, or district added in the first column of the authorised list of offices to distinguish the office from other offices of the same name, but the name of the office shall be written as it appears in the first column of that list with the supplementary indication (if any) appearing in that column;
(b)the name of the country, State, province, or district in which the office of destination is situated when that name (although not appearing in the first column of the authorised list of offices) is used by the sender; but the name shall be written as it appears in the second volume of the authorised list of offices or in the alternative form shown in the preface to that list;
(c)the name of the telegraph office of destination with the name of the country, State, province, or district if the name of the office does not appear in the said list.

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[subreg (3) rep LN 163 of 1977 reg 5, effective 1 October 1977]