Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1916. No. 59.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

Clerk of the Senate.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 198.)

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

Dated this nineteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor- General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster- General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349).

1. The following Regulation is inserted after Regulation 34:—

34a. (1) Subscribers to Telephone Exchanges may transmit by telephone to any Telegraph Office which is connected with a Telephone Exchange messages intended to be further transmitted as letter telegrams, provided they pay the prescribed cost of such letter telegrams in addition to the charge for transmitting letter telegrams through the telephone.

(2) The charge for transmitting letter telegrams through the telephone shall be:—

For each 40 words or portion, 3d.

(3) In cases where the letter telegram is required to be transmitted over trunk telephone lines, the rates specified for the use of such trunk lines, calculated on the basis of 3 minutes for each 40 words or portion thereof, must be added.

 

2. Regulation 41 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

41. The transcription of telegrams telephoned by subscribers shall, so far as the Department is concerned, become the original telegrams, but the Department shall not assume, nor be subject to, any liability by reason, or on account of any failure, delay, or mistake, in or about the transmission, receipt, or delivery of any telegram under this arrangement from whatever cause the same may arise. This Regulation applies also in the case of letter telegrams.

 

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