Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966No. 147

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1966.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 

Rate of rental.

1. Regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting, after paragraph (a) of the definition of “pensioner” in sub-regulation (1.), the following paragraph:—

“(aa) an allowance under section 9 of the Tuberculosis Act 1948 and would, but for the receipt of that allowance, be eligible to receive a pension of a kind referred to in the last preceding paragraph;”.

2. Where—

Application of amendment.

(a) within a period of twelve months after the date of commencement of these Regulations, a person who is a person referred to in paragraph (aa) of the definition of “pensioner” in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations makes application for reduced rental in respect of a telephone service under sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 29 of the Telephone Regulations as amended by these Regulations; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 99; 1929, Nos. 122 and 133; 1930, Nos. 2, 7, 15, 54 and 112; 1931, Nos. 86 and 137; 1932, No. 16; 1933, Nos. 13, 14, 56, 64, 84 and 135; 1934, Nos. 30 and 114; 1935, Nos. 25, 26, 93, 96 and 121; 1936, No. 121; 1937, Nos. 14, 36 and 86; 1938, No. 4; 1939, Nos. 34 and 130; 1940, Nos. 14, 28 and 230; 1941, Nos. 15, 126, 236 and 261; 1942, No. 504; 1943, No. 141; 1946, No. 118; 1948, No. 113; 1949, No. 39; 1950, No. 92; 1951, No. 74; 1954, No. 29; 1955, Nos. 27, 59 and 73; 1956, Nos. 68 and 76; 1957, Nos. 21 and 46; 1958, No. 14; 1959, No. 83; 1960, Nos. 26, 71, 79, 88, 95, 100 and 101; 1961, Nos. 8, 9, 17, 26, 41, 47, 56, 66, 70, 75, 80, 85, 94, 106, 109, 113, 115, 119, 124 and 135; 1962, Nos. 5, 9, 13, 25, 35, 52, 54, 65, 78 and 104; 1963, Nos. 7, 30, 49, 68, 96 and 132; 1964, Nos. 4, 85, 102 and 123; 1965, Nos. 11, 14, 21 and 34; and 1966, No. 22.

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(b) the person has, on and from the date of commencement of these Regulations or a date later than that date, been continuously—

(i) a subscriber to the telephone service;

(ii) a person eligible for reduced rental; and

(iii) ordinarily resident in the premises in which the service is installed,

the application shall be treated as if it had been made on the date of commencement of these Regulations, or on that later date, as the case may be.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra