Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1910.
(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1913, No. 127.)
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting
with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the under mentioned
amended Regulations under the
Telephone Regulations.
to come into operation on the sixteenth day of August, 1913.
Dated this twenty-fifth day of July, One thousand nice hundred and thirteen.
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AGAR WYNNE.
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Telephone Regulations.
The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1912, No. 65) are amended—
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a )by repealing paragraph (II.) of Regulation 106, and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—“(II.) The applicants shall enter into a joint and several bond in a sum to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, conditioned to make good, during a period of seven years after the completion of the line, an amount equal to 50 per centum of the amount by which—
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a ) the estimated revenue, or(
b ) the actual revenue
(whichever of these is the greater) falls short of a minimum revenue”, and
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b ) by repealing Regulation 107 and inserting the following regulation in its stead:—“107. The sum deposited with the Postmaster-General shall be paid to the Trust Fund, and such sum shall be available for the purpose of making good, in any year, 50 per centum of the amount by which—
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(whichever of these is the greater) falls short of a minimum revenue, and the sums required for that purpose may be withdrawn from the Trust Fund, and the accrued interest thereon, where necessary, may also be drawn from an Expenditure Vote and paid to the Consolidated Revenue Fund at such times as the Postmaster-General thinks fit.”
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