Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 86.

 

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 on and from the 15th July, 1931.

Dated this eighth day of July, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. E. GREEN

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 139 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Press Conversations

“139.—(1.) The charges for trunk line press conversations shall be as follows:—

(a) For conversations between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.—the charges prescribed by or under the last preceding regulation for calls between 9 a.m. and 6. p.m., excepting that such charges shall apply in respect of each period of five minutes or part thereof; and

(b) For conversations between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.—the charges prescribed by or under that regulation for calls between those hours:

Provided that, where the radial distance between telephone exchanges or telephone offices does not exceed 30 miles, the charges prescribed by or under the last preceding regulation for calls made between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. shall apply in respect of press conversations, excepting that such charges shall apply for each period of five minutes or part thereof.

“(2.) Where, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., any person is waiting to use a trunk line on payment of charges other than as prescribed under the last preceding sub-regulation, a press conversation on that line shall not be allowed to commence, or, having commenced, shall not be permitted to extend beyond the period then current.

“(3.) In this regulation, a ‘press conversation’ means a conversation relating to information or news of the nature specified in the definition of ‘press telegram’ in regulation 63 of the Telegraph Regulations.”.

 

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

1901.—Price 3d.