Telephone Regulations 1927 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 2.

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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 following amendments of the Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of January, 1930.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. LYONS

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 40 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

(2) In any prosecution for the recovery of rent and charges under these regulations, the averment of the prosecutor or plaintiff contained in the information, declaration or claim shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.

2. Regulation 63 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Objectionable or fictitious messages.

63. (1) Any person who—

(a) whilst using any telephone, associated with or connected to the telephone system, makes use of any unbecoming expression or of any language of an objectionable, obscene or offensive nature, or of a character calculated to provoke a breach of the peace; or

(b) mischievously uses any such telephone for the purpose of irritating any person, or of conveying any fictitious order or instruction or message,

shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Not exceeding Ten pounds.

(2) Where a subscriber’s telephone is used by any person in any manner specified in the preceding sub-regulation, the telephone may, without prejudice to the right of the Department to recover the rental and other charges payable to the end of the term agreed upon, be disconnected and any instrument or fittings belonging to the Department removed.

3. Regulation 108 is amended by substituting the word “shall” for the word “may” in the last sentence thereof.

 

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

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