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

Ex. Min. No. 445. Commonwealth of Australia.

Postmaster-General’s Department,

2nd October, 1902.

Ex. Min. No. 445. Commonwealth of Australia.

Postmaster-General’s Department,

2nd October, 1902.

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IS Excellency the Acting Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, has approved that the regulations made, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 (as published in the Commonwealth Gazette of the 5th June, 1902, No. 26). be amended as shown hereunder to take effect on and from the 24th day of October, 1902.

JAMES G. DRAKE,

Postmaster-General

Amendments of Regulations.

Transaction of Business after usual Office Hours.

Arrangements may be made to keep any official office open for the transmission of telegrams after the ordinary business hours, upon notice being given to the officer in charge, at least one hour before the ordinary time of closing, and upon payment of a deposit of Two shillings and sixpence (2s. 6d.) for the first hour or portion thereof, and One shilling and sixpence (1s. 6d.) for every subsequent hour, or portion thereof, during which it is desired the office shall be kept open. All telegrams transmitted must be paid for at the usual rates.

Private Telephone Lines in Country Districts.

6. On the completion of the line to the satisfaction of the Deputy Postmaster-General a licence to use it shall be issued. A licence-fee of Five shillings per annum payable in advance shall be charged, irrespective of the length of the line. This fee covers the use of one line only. If the line be extended so as to connect additional stations, a further fee of Five shillings per annum for each additional line shall be charged; and, in the case of a line joining two pastoral holdings, a separate licence-fee shall be charged for each holding occupied by a different lessee, irrespective of the length of the line, and such fee must be paid in advance.

7. Where such line is erected partly on existing poles the property of the Postmaster-General, the sum of Twenty-five shillings (25s.) per annum per mile, payable annually in advance, shall be charged for the portion erected on such poles, in addition to the licence-fee mentioned. The wire on such poles shall be erected and maintained by the Postmaster-General, and the licensee must undertake to rent the line for a period of at least Six (6) years.

Telephone Regulations.

First sentence of clause 13 to be amended to read as follows:— The name of every subscriber will be inserted once free of charge in each issue of the Telephone Directory, but an annual fee of Five shillings shall be charged for each additional name inserted at the request of a subscriber, but more than six names shall not be inserted at the request of any one person.

Commonwealth Press Telegrams.

3. Commonwealth press telegrams shall mean those relating to parliamentary, executive, and departmental proceedings of the Commonwealth, or parliamentary papers and bills, or summaries thereof, without notes or comments or any extraneous matter beyond what may be necessary to afford a connective statement of the facts.

Counting and Charging Telegrams.

Regulation 22 (3) to read—“Every isolated character, letter, or figure.”

Addition to Regulation Fixing Rates for Conversations over Telephone Trunk Lines other than Press.

The period for which a line may be used by any one person shall not exceed six (6) minutes in cases where other persons are waiting to use the line.