Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 56.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 16.)

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 twenty-third day of April, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1914, No. 71.)

Regulation 47 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

47. (1) Subject to this Regulation the fee for the use of a public telephone shall be uniformly One penny for a conversation of three minutes, or part of three minutes, whether the call be made by a subscriber or a non-subscriber.

(2) This fee covers only the conversation from the public telephone to any subscriber connected with the network of the Exchange to which that public telephone is connected. The network includes the main and branch Exchanges, but does not include trunk lines.

(3) If a person speak from one public telephone to a person at a second public telephone the fee for the use of each telephone must be paid.

(4) The fee prescribed in this Regulation shall be paid for the use of any public telephone situated within 10 miles radially from the Central Telephone Exchange in the case of telephone networks of cities of towns having a population of more than 10,000 resident within 10 miles radially from the Central Telephone Exchange, or situated within 5 miles in the case of other networks or Exchanges.

(5) For the use of public telephones beyond these distances respectively the trunk line charges specified in Regulation 51 shall be paid when a public telephone is used for the purpose of conversing over a trunk line, however, the fee for the use of the trunk line only is to be charged.

C.5247.—Price 3d.

 

(6) Public telephones will not be opened unless the estimated revenue to be derived annually is equal to the amount of (a) the allowance (if any) to be made to the owner or occupier of the premises finding accommodation for the telephone, (b) the cost or estimated cost (if any) of providing light for the public telephone, (c) the cost or estimated cost of exchange operating, cleaning the telephone cabinet and clearing the coin receptacles and all similar charges, and (d) 10 per cent. of the capital cost of providing the service. Provided, however, that where the estimated revenue is less than the required amount, public telephones will be opened upon in guarantee being given by the persons concerned to pay annually to the Postmaster-General the difference between the actual revenue and the required revenue.

(7) A public telephone will be provided at a cab rank, where required, on the understanding that if the minimum revenue of £5 per annum be not derived from the use of the telephone, the instrument will be removed. Any cab proprietor or driver using the cab rank so connected shall be entitled to use the telephone upon payment of the prescribed fee for each call he makes; and no preference, whether for inward or outward messages, shall be given to any cab proprietor or driver using that cab rank. This Regulation shall not apply to any telephone at a cab rank, the annual fee for which is paid by a municipal council.

 

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