Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES
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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 amended
Regulation under the
Dated this twenty-third day of June, 1921.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
GEO H. WISE,
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 4 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—
4. (1) The Postmaster-General reserves the right to refuse to comply with any application for connexion with any telephone system, or for the transfer of any existing telephone service, or for the construction of any telephone line or service.
(2) Except as allowed in these Regulations a subscriber shall not sell or offer for sale his telephone service to any person or advertise his telephone service as being for sale. Penalty: Ten pounds.
(3) If any person is convicted of an offence against this regulation, the Deputy Postmaster-General may declare the telephone service in respect of which the offence was committed to be forfeited and may disconnect the premises from the Telephone Exchange with which such premises are connected, and may remove any telephone instruments and apparatus therefrom.
(4) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the transfer of a telephone service to a new subscriber with the consent of the Deputy Postmaster-General upon or in connexion with, a
bonâ fide change in the occupancy of the premises in which the service is installed.(5) In this regulation “telephone service” includes any rights of a subscriber in or to a telephone service.
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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