Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 231.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 147.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 to come into operation forthwith.

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

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of Telephone Regulations 1913.

The Telephone Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349) are amended by inserting therein after Regulation 4a the following Regulation: —

“4b. The Postmaster-General, or any officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department, shall not be liable to any action, claim, or demand for compensation for interruption, from whatever cause arising, of the service—

“(a) of any person who becomes a subscriber after the 18th day of August, 1915; or

“(b) of any person who, being a subscriber on the 18th day of August, 1915, renews his service after that date.”

 

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