Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 269.

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 180.)

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

Dated this thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of 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. 42).

Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 21 is repealed, and the following Sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

21. (1) (a) Should a subscriber’s telephone be removed at the subscriber’s request to another address or position within the same network, he shall pay the cost of the removal. In cases where the rental is not increased such cost shall be the actual cost of labour, plus the value of the material used in wiring the premises (reckoned from the first pole outside the subscriber’s premises), less the value of the material recoverable from the former premises; provided that, where in such cases the Block Distribution System is in use, the cost shall be Ten shillings plus the cost of refitting the instruments. In cases where the rental is increased consequent upon the removal, such cost shall be the actual cost of labour required in wiring the premises, and the cost of refitting the telephone apparatus.

(b) Should a subscriber require a removal or alteration of his telephone within the same premises the charges for such removal or alteration shall be in accordance with the following scale: Provided that the Deputy Postmaster-General may reduce the charge to be made for

C.17976.—Price 3d

 

any removal or alteration in any case as to which he is satisfied that the circumstances warrant the reduction:—

1. Change of apparatus (but not its location) with increase in rental, nil.

2. Change of apparatus (but not its location), without increase in rental, 7s. 6d.

3. Removal of telephone instrument, bell, or extension bell to another position—

(i) within the same room, 9s;

(ii) to another room involving not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 15s.;

(iii) to another room involving more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.;

4. Reversal of position of main and extension sets when—

(i) they are in the same room, 16s.,

(ii) they are in different rooms, and the change involves not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.;

(iii) the change involves more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 30s.;

5. Alteration of an Exchange number at the subscriber’s request, 4s. Provided that where, owing to an increase in the subscriber’s installation, it is desirable in the interests of both the subscriber and the Department that consecutive numbers should be given, no charge shall be made.

(c) Where the cost of travelling incurred in connexion with the execution of the removal or alteration amounts to more than 25 per cent. of the appropriate charge as set out in this Sub-regulation, the subscriber shall, in addition to such charge, pay the amount by which the cost of travelling exceeds 25 per cent. of the charge.

 

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