Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 14.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*

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 1901-1950.

Dated this eleventh

day of March, 1958.

W.J.Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Telephone Regulations. 

Facilities provided.

1. Regulation 30 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“30.—(1.) For the rental payable under regulation 29 of these Regulations, the Department shall—

(a) provide and maintain all necessary exchange equipment;

(b)subject to the payment of the extra charge (if any) payable under regulation 31 of these Regulations, provide and maintain the necessary line from the exchange to the telephone; and

(c) subject to payment of the increased amount (if any) payable under regulation 33b of these Regulations, provide and maintain the telephone for the service.

“(2.) Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding sub-regulation and subject to regulation 91 of these Regulations, the Department is not required to provide and maintain the whole or part of the necessary line from the exchange to the telephone if, in the opinion of the Department, the provision and maintenance of the line or that part of the line by the Department is not justified.”.

Services to distant exchanges.

2. Regulation 32 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) the words “wall pattern”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th March 1958.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Telephone Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1957, No. 46.

6220/57.—Price 3d. 9/19.12.1957.

3. After regulation 33 of the Telephone Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Type of telephone provided.

“33a. Nothing in the preceding provisions of this Division imposes an obligation on the Department to provide a telephone of a type other than a handset type of telephone and, where a telephone of a type other than a handset type of telephone is provided on an existing service, the Department may, if, in its discretion, it considers such a course to be necessary, provide a telephone of a handset type in place of the telephone provided for the service.

Increased charges for certain types of telephones.

“33b. Where a telephone of a type specified in the first column of the table in this regulation is provided by the Department either at the request of the subscriber or in pursuance of the last preceding regulation, the rental or charges otherwise payable under this Division shall be increased by the amount specified in the second column of that table opposite to that type.

Type of Telephone.	Amount of Increase per annum.
s.	d.
Pedestal type....................................................................................................	5	0
Handset wall type ............................................................................................	7	6
Handset table type ...........................................................................................	12	6

Provision of services not wholly provided by Department.

4. Regulation 91 of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (d)the words “Department the” and inserting in their stead the words “Department, the rental and”;

(b)by omitting paragraph (e)and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(e)For the rental and charges referred to in the last preceding paragraph, the Department shall provide all necessary exchange equipment and, subject to paragraph (fa)of this regulation, one telephone, complete with batteries, for installation by the applicant at his own cost;”;

(c) by omitting sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (f) and inserting in its stead the following word and sub-paragraph:—

“and (iii) for the fees specified in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, the Department shall, subject to the next succeeding paragraph, provide a telephone, complete with batteries, for each point for installation by the applicant at his own cost;”;

(d)by inserting after paragraph (f) the following paragraph:—

“(fa)Where a telephone of a type specified in the first column of the table in regulation 33b of these Regulations is provided by the Department either at the request of the subscriber or in pursuance of the next succeeding sub-regulation, the rental and charges payable shall be increased by the amount specified in the second column of that table opposite to the type of telephone for each telephone of the type so provided;”; and

(e) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Nothing in the last preceding sub-regulation imposes an obligation on the Department to provide a telephone of a type other than a handset type of telephone and, where a telephone of a type other than a handset type of telephone is provided on an existing service, the Department may, if, in its discretion, it considers such a course to be necessary, provide a telephone of a handset type in the place of the telephone provided for the service.”.

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