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

STATUTORY RULES

1911. No. 134.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1910.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1911, No. 92.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1910, namely:—

General Postal Regulations.

Private boxes, private mail bags.

Telephone Regulations.

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges.

to come into operation on the thirtieth day of September, 1911.

Dated this 6th day of September, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSIAH THOMAS.

 

General Postal Regulations.

Private Boxes.

The Regulations under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 244) are amended:—

(a)By inserting in Regulation 2, after the word “year,” the words “and such renewal fees must be paid within fourteen days from that date,” and

(b) By inserting after Regulation 3, the following new Regulation:—

3a. “If a boxholder who has rented a private box for more than one year continuously, relinquishes the use of such box before the expiration of any subsequent year for which the prescribed fee has been paid, he shall, on return by him to the Department of all the keys of the box, and payment of five shillings to cover the cost of changing locks, be entitled to a refund of the proportion of the fee paid for the period beyond the end of the quarter during which the box is relinquished.”

C. 14298.—Price 3d.

 

Private Mail-bags.

Regulation 2 under this head (Gazette No. 26, of 5th June, 1902, page 245) is amended by inserting after the word “year” the words “and such renewal fees must be paid within one month from that date.”

Telephone Regulations.

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges.

Regulation 28 under this head (Statutory Rules 1907, No. 46, as amended by Statutory Rules 1907, No. 91, 1908, No. 10, and 1909, No. 24) is amended:—

(a) By inserting at the beginning of the paragraph commencing with the words “Instruments used on extension lines” the words “Except where otherwise provided in this Regulation,” and

(b) By adding at the end of the Regulation, the following paragraph:—

“Extension services constructed and maintained by the users entirely on their own premises or land may be connected with the Exchange system subject to the services being constructed and maintained in every way to the satisfaction of the Deputy Postmaster-General, but the Postmaster-General will accept no responsibility for any defect arising on any part of such extension services, or caused through their connexion with the Exchange system. The approval of the Deputy Postmaster-General shall in all cases be obtained before any such extension service is connected with the Exchange system.”

 

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