Telephone Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1920. No. 226.

REGULATION 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 tire following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE.

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the telegraph regulations 1913.

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

Sub-regulation 2 of regulation 37 is repealed, and the following sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

37. (2) In addition to the charges prescribed in sub-regulation (1), an Exchange call shall be recorded and charged against the subscriber and in cases where more than one telegram is telephoned by the same call, an additional fee of 1d. per telegram shall be charged for each additional telegram transmitted by the subscriber, provided that subscribers having direct lines to the Telegraph Office and paying the fee specified in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation for an individual telegram shall not be subject to the fees specified in this sub-regulation.

       

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