Telephone Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 157.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of November, 1926.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 5 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (f) of sub-regulation (2) the words, “and one copy of the telephone list for each telephone provided”.

2. After regulation 5 of the Telephone Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“5a.—(1) One telephone directory shall be provided at the cost of the Department to each subscriber in respect of each telephone supplied to him under the last preceding regulation. Any telephone directory so provided shall remain the exclusive property of the Postmaster-General and shall be delivered up to the Department on demand.

(2) Telephone directories supplied free of cost by the Department shall not be enclosed in covers in or upon which advertisements are displayed without the written consent of the Postmaster-General.

(3) Copies of the telephone directory may also be purchased at the price fixed in the State in which such copies are issued.”

3. Regulation 23a of the Telephone Regulations is repealed.

 

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