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

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 20.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1907, No. 116.)

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:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part I., Telephone Exchanges.

Part IV., Public Telephones,

to come into operation on the seventh day of March, 1908.

Dated this thirteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

Part 1., Telephone Exchanges.

After Regulation 10 under this head the following regulation is inserted:—

10a. (1) Places outside the network of a Telephone Exchange may, subject to this regulation, be allowed to be connected with any Telephone Exchange within the network.

(2) The total length of line necessary for the connexion must not exceed 25 miles.

(3) The charges shall be as follow:—

(a)Where the telephone line connects a place with a Telephone Exchange, and does not extend more than 5 miles beyond the limits of the network of which the Exchange forms part, the charge for the service shall be at the same rate as for a similar length of line in the case of a subscriber within the network.

(b)Where the telephone line connects a place with a Telephone Exchange, and extends more than 5, but not more than 25 miles beyond the limits of the network of which the Exchange forms part, the charge for the service shall be as specified in paragraph (a)for the part of the line which does not extend more than 5 miles beyond the limits of the network, and shall be at the rate of 15s. per annum for each additional quarter mile, or part of a quarter mile.

(4) The charges are to be calculated on the actual length of line, and not on the radial distance.

C.2945.—Price 3d.

Telephone Regulations.

Part IV., Public Telephones.

The regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) are amended by the addition of the following new regulation:—

49b. 1. A person (other than the subscriber, if any, entitled to the use of the instrument without further charge, or an officer of the Department acting in course of his duty) shall not use any public telephone without having first paid the prescribed fee for the use of the telephone.

2. Any person who uses, or attempts to obtain the use of, any public telephone contrary to this regulation, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding Five pounds.

 

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