Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 22

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961.*

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 1901-1961.

Dated this third day of February, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendments of the Telephone Regulations 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.

2. Regulation 35 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Local call fee.

“ 35. Subject to these Regulations, the fees payable for effective local calls from the telephone of a subscriber shall be calculated at the rate of Ten cents for every three effective local calls.”.

Accounts for calls and charges.

3. Regulation 40 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1a.) For the purposes of ascertaining the amount payable under these Regulations in a case where the amount calculated in accordance with these Regulations Includes a fraction of a cent—

(a) if the fraction is less than one-half of a cent—the amount shall be deemed to be reduced by the amount of the fraction; or

(b) if the fraction is one-half of a cent or more than one-half of a cent—the amount shall be deemed to be increased by treating the fraction as One cent.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10 February, 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 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, 5, 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; and 1965, Nos.

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Extension telephones.

4. Regulation 64 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) the words “, subject to the reduction of such charges by one-third where a single wire circuit is supplied ”.

Calls at specified times.

5. Regulation 87a of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “ equal to twice the local-call fee ” and inserting in their stead the words “ of Seven cents ”.

Trunk line calls.

6. Regulation 128 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting the figure and letter “ 2d.” and inserting in their stead the words “ Two cents ”.

 

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