Telegraph Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 23.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1946.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1946.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of February, 1948.

W.J McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.

Regulation 42 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Inquiries concerning telegrams and rectification of telegrams.

“42.—(1.) The addressee or the sender of a telegram, or the authorized representative of the addressee or the sender, may, by means of paid service advices—

(a) cause a telegraphic inquiry to be made concerning the telegram; or

(b) obtain a repetition of the whole or any part of the telegram.

“(2.) The charge for a paid service advice transmitted pursuant to this regulation and the charge for the reply thereto shall, in each case, be one-half of the prescribed charge for an ordinary rate telegram of the same length between the telegraph offices concerned :

Provided that where a repetition discloses an error in the transmission of the original telegram any money deposited for the paid service advice or for the reply thereto shall be refunded.

“(3.) Where the addressee requests a repetition with the object of having errors or supposed errors in the telegram rectified and the addressee is known to the postmaster or officer-in-charge, the addressee may have the whole or part of the telegram repeated on giving an undertaking to pay the charges for the paid service advices in the event of no error having been made by the telegraph service.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 35, 88 and 97; 1929, Nos. 15 and 128; 1930, Nos. 1, 5, 42, 81, 114 and 129; 1931, Nos. 70, 132 and 136; 1933, Nos. 102 and 127; 1934, Nos. 24, 113 and 137; 1935, No. 77; 1938, No. 63; 1939, Nos. 14 and 84; 1940, Nos. 50, 87 and 102; 1942, No. 550; 1943, Nos. 215 and 242; 1944, No. 91; 1945, No. 10; and 1946, No. 139.

7623.—Price 3d. 10/9.1.1948.

 

“(4.) Except in a case where the request is made by telephone by an addressee who is a subscriber, the undertaking shall be given in writing, and the person giving the undertaking shall pay, on demand, the charges payable. Where a subscriber has made the request by telephone, any charges payable shall be included in his periodical telephone account.

“(5.) A refund shall not be made in respect of any rectifying telegram which, instead of being exchanged between the telegraph offices as a paid service advice, was exchanged direct between the sender and the addressee.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.