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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 50.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901, AND THE POST AND TELEGRAPH RATES ACT 1902.

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

Telegraphic Regulations—Telegrams within the Commonwealth, Electoral Telegrams;

Post Office Express Delivery Service—Special Condition;

Telephone Regulations—Military Lines,

should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this sixth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON ERNEST GROOM,

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Telegraphic Regulations.

Telegrams within the Commonwealth.

The Regulations under this head shall be amended by the addition of the following Regulation, after the Regulations relating to Press Telegrams:—

Electoral Telegrams.

Telegrams concerning Commonwealth Parliamentary Elections, and containing only the names of Commonwealth Electoral Divisions, names of candidates at such elections, and the numbers of votes polled for each such candidate, and which shall be lodged for transmission on the day of, or before noon on the day after, the election, shall be transmitted on payment of the rates and subject to the conditions prescribed for Commonwealth Press telegrams transmitted within the Commonwealth

 

Post Office Express Delivery Service.

The Regulations under this head shall be amended by the addition of the following:—

Special Condition.

The express delivery of letters and packets shall be made by messengers only during the hours the office of delivery is open to the public for transaction of telegraph business, and messengers are on duty.

 

Telephone Regulations.

The Regulations under this head shall be amended by the addition of the following:—

Military Lines.

When telephone lines required for military purposes only, and which do not connect with any public telephone system, are erected upon military reserves or premises, and partly upon poles of the Postmaster-General, the charges payable for the portion of such lines erected on poles of the Postmaster-General shall be at the rate of 25s. per annum per mile, or part thereof, calculated upon the aggregate length of the circuits.

 

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