Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 56.

 

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

Dated this twenty-seventh day of April, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ARCHDALE PARKHILL

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 84 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Charitable institutions.

84. Charitable institutions having for their object the relief of poor or afflicted persons in Australia, which are supported wholly or partly by public subscription, may, with the approval of the Department, be charged half the rates prescribed by these Regulations for unit fee calls.”.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding regulation, where a charitable institution was, on the 1st January, 1933, being charged, in pursuance of Regulation 84 of the Telephone Regulations, half the usual rates for lines and any extra apparatus, such concessional rates shall continue until the expiration of a period of twelve months thereafter.

 

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

1225.—Price