Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 48.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

13 JUN 1923

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation from 1st April, 1923.

Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 37 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2), and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

“(2) In addition to the charges prescribed in sub-regulation (1) an exchange call (covering all the telegrams telephoned by one and the same call) shall, except in the case of a subscriber having a direct line to the telegraph office, be recorded, and charged against the subscriber on each occasion when the exchange is called for the purpose of telephoning telegrams.”

2. Regulation 71 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2), and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

“(2) The prescribed telephone call fee shall not apply in the case of telegrams telephoned on lines erected under this regulation connecting the subscriber with the telegraph office.”

 

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