Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 27.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.

Dated this fourteenth day of April, 1955.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations. 

Regulation 81 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Notice concerning message service.

“ 81.—(1.) A subscriber may, together with another subscriber, in writing, request the Department to insert a notice in the Telephone Directory after the name of that first-mentioned subscriber to the effect that, if a call to the telephone of that first-mentioned subscriber is unanswered, a call may be made to the telephone of the other subscriber and a message left with that other subscriber for the first-mentioned subscriber.

(2.) The Department may, on payment of such fee as is determined by the Department, approve, either unconditionally or conditionally, of the insertion of the notice in the Telephone Directory.

(3.) A person shall comply with any condition subject to which the approval of the Department is given under the last preceding sub-regulation and which is applicable to him.

Penalty: Five pounds.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145 as amended. For previous amendments of the Telephone Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1954, No. 29.

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Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by A. J. Arthur at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.

5320.—Price 3d. 9/1.12.1955.