Telecommunications Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 247

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1975.

Dated this eleventh day of November, 1976.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications.

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Amendments of the Telecommunications Regulations 

1. After regulation 39 of the Telecommunications Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Use of the emblem of the Commission.

“ 39a. (1) In this regulation, ‘ emblem of the Commission ’ means the emblem a representation of which is set out in the Schedule, and includes that emblem in outline only or in any colour or combination of colours.

“ (2) The Commission may, in connexion with the performance of its functions, use the emblem of the Commission.

“ (3) Except with the consent in writing of the Commission, a person shall not use in connexion with any trade, business, calling, profession or undertaking, or as, or as part of, the mark, emblem or other device of any institution, premises, vehicle, vessel or craft—

(a) a mark, emblem or other device that is identical with the emblem of the Commission;

(b) a mark, emblem or other device so nearly resembling the emblem of the Commission as to be capable of being mistaken for that emblem; or

(c) a mark, emblem or other device that is capable of being taken to be the emblem of the Commission.

Penalty: $200.

“ (4) Without limiting the generality of sub-regulation (3), a mark, emblem or other device shall be deemed to have been used in connexion with a trade, business, calling, profession or undertaking if—

(a) it is used as, or as part of, the mark, emblem, or other device of any firm or company; or

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 17 November 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1975, No. 131.

 

(b) it is applied (whether as a trade mark or otherwise) to any goods manufactured, produced, sold or offered for sale.”.

Schedule.

2.The Telecommunications Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:—

SCHEDULE  Sub-regulation 39a (1)

THE EMBLEM OF THE COMMISSION