Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 3.

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

Dated this twelfth 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.)

Paragraph (3) of Regulation 23 is repealed, and the following paragraphs are inserted in its stead:—

(3) (a) On payment in advance of an annual fee of 5s., a subscriber may have a brief notice inserted after his name in the Telephone List, indicating that in the event of non-attendance at his telephone some other subscriber will take the message intended for him.

(b) A subscriber who temporarily desires callers for his number to be connected to another number, or to be otherwise specially treated during certain hours, may be granted this facility upon payment in advance of 5s. for each such temporary facility granted.

 

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