STATUTORY
RULES.
1905. No. 43.
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 attached additions to regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—
Telephone Regulations.—Fire Brigade Lines,
should come into immediate operation, and make the additional
regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this nineteenth day of June, One thousand
nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
S.
SMITH.
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TELEPHONE
REGULATIONS.
The regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 are hereby amended by making the
following additions to the regulations under the above head after the
regulations under the sub-head “Telephone Exchanges,” viz.:—
Fire Brigade Lines.
(a)Rented Fire Brigade lines which are
connected with Exchanges for ordinary conversations shall be charged ordinary
Exchange rates, less 25 per centum, and the Fire Brigades shall be allowed to
use their own instruments if of a type approved by the Deputy Postmaster-General.
(b)Fire Brigade lines which are only
connected with Exchanges in order that subscribers may send an alarm of fire,
and those lines which connect a head Fire Brigade Station to a subordinate Fire
Brigade Station, as well as those used by Fire Brigades for fire alarm
purposes, shall be charged for as follows, viz.:—
The
total actual length of the circuits rented shall be aggregated, and an annual
rental charged on the aggregate total at the rate of 25s. per mile or part
thereof.
(c)Where the cost of construction of Fire
Brigade lines has been paid for by the Fire Brigades, existing arrangements may
continue as regards such lines if so desired by the Fire Brigades, and the
maintenance fee shall be 15s. per annum per mile of circuit (exclusive of
instruments) or portion thereof. New lines must be rented.
(d)The instruments for non-Exchange Fire
Brigade lines may be supplied either by the Fire Brigades at their own cost or
by the Postmaster-General at the cost of the Fire Brigades, as may be agreed
on.
By Authority: Robt.
S. Brain, Government Printer,
Melbourne.
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