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

STATUTORY RULES.

1907. No. 116.

 

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 amended regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part I., Telephone Exchanges,

Part IV., Public Telephones,

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

Dated this twelfth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and seven.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

Part I., 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 follows:—

(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.

C. 15048.—Price 3d.

(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 45s. per annum for each additional half mile, or part of a half mile.

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

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:—

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, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.