Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 236.

 

REGULATION 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, do hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, to come into operation on 10th December, 1915.

Dated this eighth 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).

Regulation 19 is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

19. (1) When the revenue from subscribers’ lines and services connected to any Exchange is less than at the rate of £250 per annum, attendance at that Exchange shall be given only during the hours the Post office at which the Exchange is situated is usually open for the transaction of public business, both on ordinary days and on holidays. When the revenue is at the rate of £250 or over, continuous attendance shall be provided.

(2) In calculating the revenue for the purposes of this Regulation, rentals for all subscribers’ lines and apparatus connected to the Exchange in question, and charges for all local calls, shall be included; but revenue from any trunk line connected with the Exchange shall not be included.

 

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