Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 4.

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

Dated this tenth day of January, 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 1917, No. 126.)

Regulation 17 is repealed, and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

17. (1) All telephone instruments, batteries, or any apparatus whatever which can be connected with any telephone exchange, shall, except where otherwise provided in these Regulations, be supplied at the cost of the Department, and be the exclusive property of the Postmaster-General. Upon the termination of the agreement the Postmaster-General may remove the instruments, batteries and apparatus, for which purpose, as also to permit of their inspection when considered necessary, his officers shall have free access to the premises of the subscriber.

(2) In the event of any instrument, battery or apparatus on the premises of a subscriber being destroyed by any cause whatever, the subscriber shall pay to the Postmaster-General on demand the value of the instrument, battery or apparatus destroyed, together with the cost to the Postmaster-General of the installation of another instrument, battery or apparatus on the subscriber’s premises.

(2a) In the event of any such instrument, battery or apparatus being partially destroyed or damaged by any cause whatever (other than fair wear and tear) the subscriber shall pay to the Postmaster-General on demand the cost to the Postmaster-General of repairing and reinstating the instrument, battery or apparatus partially destroyed or damaged.

(3) Sub-regulations (2) and (2a) of this regulation shall apply notwithstanding that there has been no negligence on the part of the subscriber or any person for whom he is responsible and notwithstanding that the destruction or damage may have arisen from some cause not due to the act or default of the subscriber.

(4) A certificate signed by the Deputy Postmaster-General, stating the amount payable by the subscriber to the Postmaster-General under sub-regulation (2) or (2a) of this regulation, shall in all Courts be primâ facie evidence of the matters stated.

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