Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 85.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1913.

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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1913, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this tenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy for the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1915, No. 270.)

1. Sub-regulation (3) of Regulation 5 is repealed, and the following Sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

(3) Accounts for calls will be rendered half-yearly, and must be paid within fourteen days.* A statement of account, certified by a responsible officer of the Department as being correct, shall be accepted as primâ facie evidence of the number of effective calls originated by the subscriber.

Statements of the number of calls recorded against a subscriber for a month will, upon the subscriber's request, be furnished at the following charges:—

Statements showing monthly total, Sixpence per statement.

Statements showing daily totals for a month, One Shilling per statement.

Statements showing details of the trunk line calls charged against a subscriber’s account for any half-year, or portion thereof, will, upon the subscriber’s request, be furnished at the following charges:—

For each statement showing calls to the value of One pound or under, One shilling.

For each statement showing calls to the value of over One pound, One shilling for the first pound, and Sixpence for each additional pound or fraction thereof.

*See also Regulation 14.

C.1510.—Price 3d.

 

2. Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 52 is repealed, and the following Sub-regulation inserted in its stead:—

52. (1) Subscribers to Telephone Exchanges may use the trunk lines, when required, by paying the trunk line fees prescribed by Regulation 51. Trunk line calls made by any subscriber shall be recorded and included in the subscriber's half-yearly account for calls, prescribed by Regulation 5 (3) provided that an interim account in respect of such calls has not been rendered and payment previously made therefor.

 

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