Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

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STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 162.

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-sixth day of June, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,
Postmaster-General.

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 270, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 85.)

Regulation 5 is amended by repealing sub-regulation (3) and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

(3) Accounts for calls will be rendered half-yearly, and must be paid within fourteen days. A statement of account certified by a responsible officer of the Department as being correct shall be accepted as primâ facie evidence of the number of effective calls originated by the subscriber.
Statements of the number of calls recorded against a subscriber for any period other than the ordinary accounting period will, upon the subscriber’s request, be furnished on payment of Sixpence for each period, exceeding one day, for which the total number of calls is shown; or One shilling for each statement showing daily total of calls for one month.
Statements showing details of trunk line calls charged against a subscriber’s account for any half-year, or portion thereof, will, upon the subscriber’s request, be furnished at the following charges:—
For each statement showing calls to the value of One pound or under, One shilling.
For each statement showing calls to the value of over One pound, One shilling for the first pound, and Sixpence for each additional pound or fraction thereof.