Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 220.

 

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-first day of August, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 85.)

Regulation 52 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5.) Applications for advance booking of calls may be made by subscribers who desire to make a certain number of trunk line calls each day for a period of not less than six consecutive days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, and may be granted subject to the following conditions:—

(a) The number of advance booked calls allowed to a subscriber shall not exceed two per day per trunk line between any two towns;

(b) One call per day per trunk line may be booked when not less than two trunk line calls are made daily between the same two towns, during the period for which the arrangement is required, and two calls per day per trunk line may be booked in cases where the subscriber’s total trunk line calls between the same two towns amount to four or more daily during that period;

(c) Due notice in writing must be given to the Telephone Manager of the calls which it is desired to book in advance, the times at which it is desired to make the calls, and the period for which the arrangement is required;

 

(d)No guarantee will be given in respect of calls booked in advance, but the Department will endeavour to effect them at the time desired, or as soon thereafter as the circuit is disengaged;

(e) If the call be not accepted by the subscriber when offered, he shall pay the usual trunk line fee, notwithstanding that the call is not effected;

(f) Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the subscriber shall pay the charges for two or four trunk line calls daily, as the case may be, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, notwithstanding that such calls may not have been effected;

(g) When advance booked calls cannot be made owing to the line being interrupted, the subscriber will be advised by the Department and the fees for such calls shall not be charged.”

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.