Telephone Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 106.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as Amended to this Date.)

1. Regulation 80 is repealed, and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

80. Where the line is erected partly on existing poles, the property of the Postmaster-General, a sum of Twenty-five shillings per annum for each pole mile, or portion thereof, of single wire, and Thirty-seven shillings and sixpence per annum for each pole mile, or portion thereof, of double wire, shall be charged for the portion so erected, in addition to the licence-fee mentioned. The wire on these poles shall be erected and maintained by the Post-master-General, and the licensee must undertake to rent the wire on the Department’s poles for a period of at least six years.

2. Regulation 102 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (4) thereof, and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

(4) The subscriber shall pay to the Postmaster-General a sum of Five shillings per annum for each pole mile, or portion thereof, of single wire, and Ten shillings per annum for each pole mile or portion thereof of double wire, as rental for the use of the poles on which the wire is erected.

   

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