Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Ex. Min. 559.        Commonwealth of Australia.

Postmaster-General’s Department,

18th December, 1903.

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IS Excellency the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, has been pleased to approve that, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, the undermentioned Regulations and amendment of Regulation be made.

P. O. FYSH,

Postmaster-General.

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REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF SUBSCRIBERS’ TELEPHONES BY THE PUBLIC ON THE TICKET SYSTEM.

1.     These regulations shall take effect on the 14th day of January, 1904.

2.     Any subscriber to a telephone exchange who pays a subscription at the business rate may apply to the Deputy Postmaster-General for permission to place his telephone at the service of the public.

1. The Deputy Postmaster-General may, if he thinks fit, grant the permission applied for, and thereupon the telephone shall be available for public use, subject to these regulations.

1. The subscriber shall, if the permission is granted, exhibit a plain and legible notice in a prominent position on his premises indicating that the telephone is available for public use.

1. A charge of threepence (3d.) for each conversation of three minutes or part of three minutes shall be made and shall be paid by ticket as herein provided

6.     Tickets for the payment of conversation charges shall be issued by the Postmaster-General’s Department and sold at the price of threepence each. Books containing twelve tickets each may be purchased on application at the General Post Office.

7.     Any person who desires to use the telephone shall place a ticket in a locked box, to be provided and kept by the subscriber, but opened and cleared only by an officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department, and may then use the telephone.

8.     An additional ticket must be placed in the box for each three minutes or part of three minutes by which the conversations exceed the first three minutes.

9.     The subscriber shall be entitled to receive one penny from the Postmaster-General for each ticket removed from the box by the officer who opens it.

10.  Nothing in these regulations shall affect the use of the telephone by the subscriber, his family, or employés in his business.

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ADDITION TO REGULATION UNDER HEADING “REPLIES MAY BE PREPAID.”

(On Page 257 of Gazette copy.)

A telegram containing in the text thereof the words “reply paid” or the indication “R.P.” (either of which must be paid for by the sender as part of the message) shall not be accepted for transmission unless an amount in prepayment of the desired reply has actually been lodged by the sender of such telegram.

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MONEY ORDERS.

The following regulation shall be substituted for Regulation 21 under the head “Money Orders” of the Regulations made under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, and published in the Gazette on the 5th June, 1902:—

21.  If payment of an order, whether issued in the Commonwealth or elsewhere, be not obtained before the end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it was issued (for instance, if issued in January, and not paid before the end of the following January) all claim to the money will be lost. Nevertheless, when a good reason can be given for delay in presenting the order, an application for payment, subject to a deduction at the rate of 6d. for every £5 or fraction thereof, will be considered.

This regulation shall take effect from the fourteenth day of January, 1904.