Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 62.

 

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 following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of April, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. POYNTON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of Telephone Regulations.

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

After regulation 2a of the Telephone Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“2b. The Deputy Postmaster-General may, either before or after the acceptance of a telephone contract and before or after the installation of a telephone service, demand security in such form and amount as he thinks necessary, for the payment of any telephone charges, and, failing compliance with his demand, may cancel the agreement and cause the premises to be disconnected from the Telephone Exchange with which they are connected, and any telephone instruments and apparatus to be removed.”.

Regulation 5 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation;—

“(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations the Deputy Postmaster-General may render an interim account at any time after the connexion of a telephone service for any charges that have accrued, and may demand payment within such period as he thinks fit, and, failing compliance with such demand for payment, may cancel the agreement and cause the premises to be disconnected from the Telephone Exchange with which they are connected and any telephone instruments and apparatus to be removed.”.

 

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