STATUTORY RULES.
1905. No. 59.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND
TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rule No. 43 of 1905.)
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned
Regulations under the Post and Telegraph
Act 1901, namely:—
Telephone Regulations: Fire Brigade Lines,
to
come into operation on the 9th day of October, 1905.
Dated this fourteenth day of
September, One thousand nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
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TELEPHONE REGULATIONS.
The Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 are hereby
amended by making the following additions to the Regulations under the above
head after the Regulations under the sub-head “Telephone Exchanges,” viz.:—
Fire Brigade Lines.
(a)Rented Fire Brigade
lines which are connected with Exchanges for ordinary conversations shall be
charged ordinary Exchange rates, less 25 per centum, and the Fire Brigades
shall be allowed to use their own instruments if of a type approved by the
Deputy Postmaster-General.
(b)Fire Brigade lines
which are only connected with Exchanges in order that subscribers may send an
alarm of fire, and those lines which connect a head Fire Brigade Station to a
subordinate Fire Brigade Station, as well as those used by Fire Brigades for fire
alarm purposes, shall be charged for as follows, viz.:—
The
total actual length of the circuits rented shall be aggregated, and an annual
rental charged on the aggregate total at the rate of 25s. per mile or part
thereof.
(c)Where the cost of
construction of Fire Brigade lines has been paid for by the Fire Brigades,
existing arrangements may continue as regards such lines if so desired by the
Fire Brigades, and the maintenance fee shall be 15s. per annum per mile of
circuit (exclusive of instruments) or portion thereof. New lines must be
rented.
(d) The instruments for non-Exchange Fire Brigade lines may be
supplied either by the Fire Brigades at their own cost or by the
Postmaster-General at the cost of the Fire Brigades, as may be agreed on.
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Authority: Robt. S. Brain,
Government Printer, Melbourne.
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