Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 72.

 

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 as from 9th October, 1922.

Dated this thirtieth day of May, 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 105 is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations—

(1) If the line applied for is estimated to yield, within a period of seven years, the required minimum revenue; or if the cost of the line applied for, exclusive of administration charges, does not exceed £1,500, the Department will erect the line without contribution from the applicants.

(1a) If the cost of the line applied for, exclusive of administration charges, exceeds £1,500, and the line is not estimated to yield the required minimum revenue within a period of seven years, the Department will not erect the line unless the applicants—

(a) reduce the cost of construction by a contribution in cash, labour and/or material equal to twenty-five per centum of the estimated annual deficiency capitalized at ten per centum, or

(b) contribute such an amount in cash, labour and/or material as will reduce the cost of the line to £1,500; and

(b) by omitting the figure “ 1 ” after the word “ sub-regulation ” in sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the figure and letter “ 1a ”,

2. Regulation 106 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

106. The required minimum revenue shall be an amount sufficient to provide for the cost of operating the line, and ten per centum of the cost of constructing the line and supplying the instruments.

3. Regulations 107, 108, 109 and 110 are repealed.

 

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