Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 9.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

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 twenty-sixth day of January, 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. Regulation 28 is amended by inserting after the third item thereof, reading as follows:—

“Extension instruments, table sets in addition to the annual rental charge for wall pattern instruments, as shown above, per set........................................................................................... 0 5 0”

the following new item:—

“If the subscriber is supplied with power ringing leads he shall pay the charges prescribed by sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 70, provided that in the case of subscribers to whose switchboards more than five exchange lines are connected these charges may be waived when it is considered by the Deputy Postmaster-General that the provision of power ringing leads is necessary in the interests of the service.”

2. Sub-regulation (3) of Regulation 70b is repealed, and the following sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

“(3) The subscriber shall pay—

(a) For each Telephone connected the sum of 20s. or 25s. per annum, as the case may be, as required by Regulation 28, Part I., and in addition the sum of 5s. per annum for the provision and maintenance of the calling device associated therewith.

(b) For the Switchboard an annual rental equal to 15 per cent. of the cost of providing and installing the Switchboard and associated equipment, this percentage being made up as follows:—

Interest, 4 per cent.

Maintenance, 4 per cent.

Depreciation, 7 per cent.

C.16030.—Price 3d.

 

(c) The cost of current for charging the Battery to operate the Private Branch Exchange, and for performing any necessary ringing services. The price per current unit to be fixed from time to time by the Department.

(d) For the lines connecting the Private Branch Exchange with the Department’s Switchboard, and for all calls passing outward through the Department’s Exchange, the subscribers shall pay the fees proscribed by Regulation 5, subject to the present allowance of an ordinary instrument without calling device per Exchange line.”

 

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