Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 109.

 

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 eighteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for the Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 28.)

Regulation 96 is amended by repealing paragraph (e) and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—

(e) Where the line is extended so that, more than one point can communicate with the Exchange—

(i) with respect to services which existed, or for which an agreement was entered into, on or before the 13th September, 1916—for each additional point, Ten shillings per annum; and

(ii) with respect to services other than those referred to in the last preceding paragraph—for each additional point, Twenty shillings per annum:

Provided that if any subscriber whose service existed, or for whose service an agreement was entered into on or before the 13th September, 1916, desires to have a telephone provided by the Department, he may do so on payment of Twenty shillings per annum for each additional point.

 

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