Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1963. No. 132.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1961.*

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 1901-1961.

Dated this  Sixth

day of  September , 1963.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

C.W. Davidson

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Telephone Regulations.  

Fee for local call.

1. Regulation 117b of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting the words “a fee equal to the local-call fee” and inserting in their stead the word “Sixpence”.

Limitation of period of conversation.

2. Regulation 118 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting the words “equal to the local-call fee” and inserting in their stead the words “of Sixpence”.

Charges by subscribers.

3. Regulation 127 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting the word “Fivepence” and inserting in its stead the word “Sixpence”.

Charges for trunk line calls.

4.—(1.) Regulation 138 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “call” (first occurring) in sub-regulation (1.) the words “from the telephone of a subscriber that is not fitted with a Departmental coin attachment”.

(2.) Regulation 138 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Subject to this Part, the fee payable for an effective trunk call made from a public telephone or from a subscriber’s telephone that is fitted

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th December, 1963.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Telephone Regulations see Footnote   to Statutory Rules 1963, No. 7, and see also Statutory Rules 1963, Nos. 7, 30, 49, 68 and 96.

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with a Departmental coin attachment is the fee ascertained for that call by reference to the following table:—

Trunk distance in relation to the trunk call.	Each three minutes or part of three minutes.
	Between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.		Between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m.
s.	d.	s.	d.
Not exceeding 25 miles ...........................................................	1	6	1	0
Exceeding 25 bat not 30 miles.................................................	2	0	1	0
Exceeding 30 but not 50 miles ................................................	2	0	1	6
Exceeding 50 but not 100 miles ...............................................	4	0	3	0
Exceeding 100 but not 200 miles .............................................	6	0	4	0
Exceeding 200 but not 300 miles .............................................	10	0	7	0
Exceeding 300 but not 400 miles .............................................	12	0	10	0
Exceeding 400 miles ..............................................................	15	0	12	0

Cancellation of trunk calls.

5. Regulation 144 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed.

Application of amendments.

6. The Telephone Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations continue to apply to local calls if the operation of the telephone from which the call is made is dependent upon the insertion of pennies into the telephone instrument or a Departmental coin attachment fitted to the telephone.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.