Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 93.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby made the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934,

Dated this eighteenth day of September, 1935.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. J. McLACHLAN

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations. 

Definition of “line” or “telephone line.”

1. Regulation 4 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting, after the definition of “Licensee”, the following definition:—

“’Line’ or ‘Telephone line’ means a wire or cable used for telegraphic or telephonic communication and includes any casing, coating, tube, tunnel or pipe enclosing the same, and any posts, masts or piers supporting the same and any apparatus connected therewith or any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by means of electricity;”.

2. After regulation 16 of the Telephone Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“Unauthorized connexion with telephone system, &c.

16a.—(1.) Any person who, without the authority of the Department (proof whereof shall lie upon him)—

(a) connects any telephone line or apparatus to an authorized telephone line;

(b) authorizes, permits or suffers any other person to connect any telephone line or apparatus to an authorized telephone line, or to use any apparatus, device or fittings for the purpose of listening to any conversation, signal or any form of electrical communication passing over any authorized telephone line or of interrupting any such telephone line; or

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 19th September, 1935.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No.145, asamended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 99; 1920, Nos. 122 and 133: 1930, Nos. 2, 7, 15, 54 and 114; 1931, Nos. 86 and 137, 1932, No. 16; 1933, Nos. 13, 14, 55, 64, 84 and 135; 1934, Nos. 36, and 114, and by 1935, Nos. 25 and 26.

3791.—Price 3d.

(c) directly or indirectly uses any apparatus, device or fittings for the purpose of listening to any conversation, signal or any form of electrical communication passing over any authorized telephone line or of interrupting any such telephone line;

shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Twenty-five pounds.

“(2.) In any prosecution for an offence against the last preceding sub-regulation, the averment of the prosecutor, contained in the information, that the proprietor or occupier of the land or building, upon or within which is situated any authorized telephone line in respect of which an offence against this regulation has been committed by any other person, permitted or suffered that person to connect a telephone line or apparatus to that authorized telephone line or to use any apparatus, device or fittings for the purpose of listening to any conversation, signal or any form of electrical communication passing over that authorized telephone line or of interrupting that telephone line, shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.

“(3.) In this regulation the expression “authorized telephone line” means atelephone line which is part of or is connected with the telephone system, and includes a private telephone line installed or rented from the Department”.

 

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