Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 227.

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

Dated this eighth day of December, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

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

Regulation 13 of the Telephone Regulations 1913 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) A person whose telephone service has been discontinued under this regulation shall not be allowed to again become a subscriber within six months of the date of discontinuance, and if at any time after that person again becomes a subscriber the Deputy Postmaster-General has reasonable grounds to suppose that the subscriber is again carrying on an illegal business the Deputy Postmaster-General may forthwith determine the agreement and take the further action described in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”.

 

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