Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1971.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations, under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1971.

Dated this twenty-third day of June, 1972.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendments of the Telephone Regulations

Service connexion fee.

1. Regulation 29a of the Telephone Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4) Where the conviction of a person is quashed by a Court after a subscriber’s telephone service at a place has been discontinued under regulation 62 of these Regulations in consequence of the conviction, a service connexion fee is not payable by the subscriber in respect of the reconnexion of the telephone service for the subscriber at that place.”

Illegal or improper use of telephone.

2. Regulation 62 of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (4.), after the words “six months”, the words “, or such lesser period as the Director approves in a particular case,”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(5.) Where the conviction of the person is quashed by a Court after a subscriber’s telephone service has been discontinued under this regulation in consequence of the conviction, the last preceding sub-regulation does not prevent the subscriber again becoming a subscriber at any time after the conviction is quashed.

“(6.) Where a subscriber’s telephone service has been or is to be discontinued under this regulation in consequence of the conviction of a person of an offence, the Director shall, in determining whether to fix a period less than six months under sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation in relation to the discontinuance of the service, have regard to any detriment that discontinuance of the service would cause to the public and, in addition—

(a) if a person other than the subscriber was convicted of the offence—

(i) any knowledge of the subscriber concerning the commission of the offence;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1927.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No, 145, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Telephone Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1971, No. 57 and see also Statutory Rules 1971, No, 57; and Act No. 70, 1971.

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(ii) whether the subscriber had, either directly or indirectly, facilitated the commission of the offence; and

(iii) any hardship that the subscriber would suffer as a result of the discontinuance of the service; or

(d) if the subscriber was convicted of the offence—any special hardship that the subscriber would suffer as a result of the discontinuance of the service.”.

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