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

STATUTORY RULES

1908. No. 117.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1908, No. 96.)

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, namely:—

Postal Regulations.

Packets.—Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.

Parcels Post.

Directions as to Posting.

Telephone Regulations.

Part VI.—Telephone Junction and Trunk Lines.—Press Rates.

Part VII.—Use of Subscribers’ Telephones by the Public on the Ticket System, or on Payment.

to come into operation on the fifth day of December, 1908.

Dated this tenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Postal Regulations.

Packets.—Terms and Conditions under which Packets may be transmitted within the Commonwealth.

The eighth paragraph of Regulation 3 under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902), is repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Provided that clear and conspicuous space be left for the address the covers of articles entitled to pass at the rate of postage for printed papers may have printed matter thereon; also matter produced by other mechanical processes, provided, in the latter case, that at least 20 copies in identical terms be handed in at the counter of a Post Office at the same time.

C.14239.—Price 3d.

Parcels Post.

Directions as to Posting.

Regulation 2 under this head (Gazette No. 26 of 5th June, 1902), is amended by repealing clause (b) and substituting the following in lieu thereof:—

(b) If addressed to any place beyond the Commonwealth the sender must, If possible, be at once communicated with, and the parcel detained until the requisite amount of postage due on the parcel and on the notice sent has been obtained. If the name and address of the sender (of parcels for places other than Cape Colony) cannot be ascertained, the addressee shall be notified of its detention and of the reason therefor, and informed that on receipt of the amount of the deficiency and the postage on the notice sent to him the parcel will be duly forwarded to destination. Parcels for Cape Colony not fully prepaid and posted out of course, may be forwarded, provided the senders are not known. Such parcels shall be charged double the deficiency.

Telephone Regulations.

Part VI.—Telephone Junction and Trunk Lines.—Press Rates.

Regulation 55 under this head (Statutory Rules 1908, No. 63), is repealed, and the following substituted therefor:—

55. When Telephone Trunk Lines are used for conversations in the nature of press telegrams, as defined in the Telegraph Regulations under the head “Press Telegrams,” the charge for such use during any hour the Trunk Line is open for public business shall be us follows:—

Rates.

Distance.	Rates for 5 Minutes’ Conversation.
Not exceeding 25 miles....................................	Fourpence.
Not exceeding 50 miles....................................	Sixpence.
Not exceeding 100 miles..................................	Ninepence.
Not exceeding 150 miles..................................	One shilling and one penny.
Not exceeding 200 miles..................................	One shitting and fivepence.
Not exceeding 250 miles..................................	One shilling and ninepence.
Not exceeding 300 miles..................................	Two shillings and one penny.

Provided that conversations paid for at full rates shall in all cases take precedence over those paid for at press rates; that is, no conversation to be paid for at press rates shall be allowed to commence, or having commenced, shall be allowed to extend beyond the period then current, if any person is waiting to use the lines on payment of full rates.

Telephone Regulations.

Part VII.—Use of Subscribers’ Telephones by the Public on the Ticket System, or on Payment.

Regulation 58 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114), is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof, viz.:—

(a) The subscriber shall also, if required so to do, exhibit in a suitable place over or on the telephone and on the coin receptacle a notice requesting the public using the instrument to place the coin or ticket in the receptacle provided for the purpose.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Government Printer, Melbourne.