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

STATUTORY RULES.

1905. No. 67.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE “POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.”

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 regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations—Telephone Exchanges: 5a—

should come into immediate operation, and make the regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this eighteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and five.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN,

Postmaster-General.

 

TELEPHONE REGULATIONS.

Telephone Exchanges.

The regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, under the above head, are hereby amended by the insertion of the following regulation:—

5a. If any subscriber is convicted of carrying on any illegal business, and the place where the illegal business is carried on is connected with a telephone exchange, the Deputy Postmaster-General may determine the agreement with the subscriber and may remove the subscriber’s name from the Telephone Directory, and may remove all wires, instruments, and other property of the Postmaster-General used in connexion with the telephone. If the agreement is determined during any period in respect of which rent has been paid in advance, a proportionate part of the rent shall be returned to the subscriber.

In this regulation illegal business means—

(a) Keeping any common gaming-house, common betting-house, common bawdy-house, or house of disorderly entertainment; or

(b) keeping, occupying, or using any house or premises in contravention of the law of any State relating to gaming or wagering.

 

By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.

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