Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1922. No. 172.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.

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 forthwith.

Dated this twentieth day of November, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. POYNTON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations, 1913.

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

1. Regulation 19 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

19. (1) When the annual revenue at a Telephone Exchange from subscribers’ lines and apparatus, local calls and originating trunk line calls, is less than £150, attendance at that Exchange shall be provided on ordinary days from 9 a.m. and during such hours as may be determined by the Postmaster-General from time to time, and on holidays or any other days on which a local half-holiday is observed, only during the hours the Post Office at which the Exchange is situated is usually open for the transaction of public business.

(2) When the annual revenue, calculated on the same basis as in the preceding sub-regulation, is £150 and over (except as provided in sub-regulation (3) of this regulation) the hours of attendance shall be as specified in the preceding sub-regulation:

Provided that the closing hour on ordinary days shall be 8 p.m. except at offices where the non-official postmaster is not willing to provide the necessary attendance between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for the remuneration offered by the Department.

(3) When the annual revenue from subscribers’ lines and apparatus and local calls, plus 20 per centum of the revenue from originating trunk line calls, is £250 and over, continuous attendance shall be provided.

2. Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 51 is amended by omitting the proviso thereto.

 

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