Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 46.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules, 1908, No. 1.)

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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges;

Part XV.—Telephone lines in country districts partly erected by the Postmaster-General, and which connect with Telephone Exchanges;

to come into operation on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1908.

Dated this first day of April, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

The regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114), are amended as shown hereunder, viz.:—

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges.

(1) By substituting the words “two miles” for the words “one mile” in the fourth paragraph of regulation 7; and

(2) By repealing regulation 8 and substituting the following regulation in lieu thereof:—

8. Extra mileage charges.—When the radial length of any line exceeds two miles, the following extra mileage charges shall be made:—

For each quarter mile or portion thereof—

Exclusive services, 10s. per annum.

Two-party services, 5s. per annum per subscriber or instrument.

Three or more party services, 2s. 6d per annum per subscriber or instrument.

C. 4111.—Price 3d.

Part XV.—Telephone lines in country districts partly erected by the Postmaster-General, and which connect with Telephone Exchanges.

By repealing sub-section (d)of regulation 108, and substituting in lieu thereof:—

(d)For any portion of the line erected by the Department, the following annual charges shall be made:—

For any distance up to two mile single wire or metallic circuits, as may be necessary, £4.

For each additional quarter mile, or portion thereof, of single wire, 6s. 3d.; of metallic circuit, 9s. 5d.

The foregoing amendments shall come into operation or 1st January, 1908, but shall not apply to any subscriber exiting on 31st December, 1907, until the next, payment of rent after that date is due by him.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Government printer, Melbourne.