Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1966.*

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 1901-1966.

Dated this twenty second day of June, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Customs and Excise for and on behalf of the Postmaster-General

 

Amendments of the Telephone Regulations 

Rate of rental.

1. Regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of the definition of “pensioner” in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) an age or invalid pension under Part III. of the Social Services Act 1947-1967, a widow’s pension under Part IV. of that Act or a sheltered employment allowance under Part VIIa. of that Act”;

(b) by inserting in paragraph (aa) of that definition, after the word “pension”, the words “or an allowance”; and

(c) by omitting paragraph (d) of the definition of “prescribed person” in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(d) whose annual rate of income does not exceed an amount per annum equal to the sum of the amount specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1a.) of section 28 of the Social Services Act 1947-1967 and the amount specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) of that section;”.

2. Where—

Application of amendment.

(a) within a period of twelve months after the date of commencement of these Regulations, a person, not being a war widow pensioner within the meaning of regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations, who is in receipt of a sheltered employment allowance under Part VIIa. of the Social Services Act 1947-1967 makes application for reduced rental in respect of a telephone service under sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations as amended by these Regulations; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  ,1967.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 99; 1929. Nos. 122 and 133; 1930, Nos.2, 7, 15, 54 and 112; 1931, Nos.86 and 137; 1932, No. 16; 1933, Nos. 13, 14, 56, 64, 84 and 135; 1934, Nos. 30 and 114; 1935, Nos. 25, 26, 93, 96 and 121; 1936, No. 121; 1937, Nos. 14, 36 and 86; 1938, No. 4; 1939, Nos. 34 and 130; 1940, Nos. 14, 28 and 230; 1941, Nos. 15, 126, 236 and 261; 1942, No. 504; 1943, No. 141; 1946, No. 118: 1948, No. 113; 1949, No. 39; 1950, No.92; 1951, No. 74; 1954, No. 29; 1955, Nos. 27, 59 and 73; 1956, Nos. 68 and 76; 1957, Nos. 21 and 46; 1958, No. 14; 1959, No. 83; 1960, Nos. 26, 71, 79, 88, 95, 100 and 101; 1961, Nos. 8, 9, 17, 26, 41, 47, 56, 66, 70, 75, 80, 85, 94, 106, 109, 113, 115, 119, 124 and 135; 1962, Nos. 5, 9. 13, 25, 35, 52, 54, 65, 78 and 104; 1963, Nos. 7, 30, 49, 68, 96 and 132; 1964, Nos. 4, 85, 102 and 123; 1965, Nos. 11, 14, 21 and 34; and 1966, Nos. 22 and 147.

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(b) the person has, on and from the date of commencement of these Regulations or a date later than that date, been continuously—

(i) a subscriber to the telephone service;

(ii) a person eligible for reduced rental; and

(iii) ordinarily resident in the premises in which the service is installed,

the application shall be treated as if it had been made on the date of commencement of these Regulations, or on that later date, as the case may be.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra