Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1918. No. 311.

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

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1915, No. 270.)

Regulation 5 of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from the second paragraph of sub-regulation (2.) thereof the word “subscribers”, (first occurring) and inserting, in its stead, the words “subscribers’ lines connected”;

(b) by omitting from the second paragraph of sub-regulation (2.) thereof the word “subscribers” (last occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “subscribers’ lines”; and

(c) by inserting therein, after the second paragraph, the following new paragraph:—

“For the purposes of this sub-regulation subscribers’ lines shall include exclusive services, even when more than one line is owned by the same subscriber, and party lines, but shall not include extensions.”

 

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