Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1916.
I,
SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in
the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of
the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended
Regulation under the
Dated this sixth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
A. L. STANLEY,
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
WILLIAM WEBSTER,
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913.
(Statutory Rules 1913 No. 349.)
Regulation 17 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—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 Postalmaster-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 or damaged by any cause whatever (other than fair wear and tear) the subscriber shall pay to the Postmaster-General the value of the instrument, battery or apparatus or the amount of the damage thereto as the case requires.
(3) Sub-regulation (2) 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.
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