Telegraph Regulations 1927 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 42.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting on the advice of tire Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923 to come into operation on and from the 1st June, 1930.

Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1930.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. LYONS

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation17 is amended by omitting the words “press telegrams” from sub-regulation (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the words “telegrams addressed to registered newspapers ”.

2. Regulation 36 is amended by inserting after the group “cife” the groups “OK”, “AM”, “PM”.

3. Regulation 38 is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (2) and (3) and inserting the following sub-regulations in their stead:—

(2) A letter or letters added to a figure group shall be counted as figures in the group of occurrence.

(3) A full stop, hyphen, comma, dash or bar when used in a group of figures and/or letters shall be counted as a figure or a letter in the group in which it occurs and shall be transmitted in all cases.

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) all after the word “figures ” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “and be counted and charged for as one figure in the group in which it occurs ”.

4. Regulation 58 is amended—

(a) by inserting, after the words “first copy” in sub-regulation (5) the words “all the addresses being reckoned in the number of chargeable words”.

(b) by inserting after the word “first copy” in sub-regulation (6), the words “all the addresses being reckoned in the number of chargeable words”.

 

5. Regulation 60 is amended by omitting the words “in the preamble” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “before the address”,

6. Regulation 75 is amended by omitting clauses (a) and (b) from sub-regulation (9) and inserting the following in their stead.:—

(а) the rate prescribed for the telegraphic transmission;

(b) a fee of twopence; and

7. Regulation 77 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

(2) Upon request a subscriber may, without charge, be furnished with brief particulars of any telegram charges included in his account. A certified copy of any telegram shown in the statement may be obtained in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 68.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.