Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1922. No. 54.

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

Dated this twelfth day of April, 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 36 is amended by omitting the words “Chief District Telegraph Office,” wherever occurring, and inserting the words “nearest telegraph office from which delivery of telegrams is made” in their stead.

2. Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 37 is amended by inserting after the word “subscriber” the words “whose telephoned telegrams, inward and outward together, do not exceed 624 per annum”

3. Regulation 38 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

“In cases where the number of a subscriber’s telephoned telegrams inward and outward together exceeds 624 per annum the charge, where service is not given free, shall be determined on the following scale:—

(a) Telegrams telephoned to the Department by a subscriber :—

For the first 250 telegrams..................	2d. per telegram.
For the next 250 telegrams..................	1½d. per telegram.
For any number in excess of 500	1d. per telegram.

These charges shall be in addition to the prescribed telephone call fee.

(b) Telegrams telephoned by the Department to a subscriber:—

For each telegram .................................. 1d.”

4. Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 71 is repealed, and the following sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

(2) The prescribed telephone call fee shall not apply in the case of calls made over lines erected under this regulation except when an annual fee for telephoning telegrams is paid.

 

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