Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 118.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1934.*

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 1901-1934.

Dated this seventeenth day of July, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

D. CAMERON

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Telephone Regulations. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1946.

2. Regulation 31 of the Telephone Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Extra charges for service beyond two-mile radius.

“31.—(1.) Where the radial distance of any line erected by the Department exceeds two miles, an extra mileage charge shall be payable according to the following scale:—

(a) Where the radial distance is more than two miles but not more than three miles—Six shillings and three pence per annum for each quarter mile or portion thereof for the section of the radial distance beyond two miles;

(b) Where the radial distance is more than three miles but not more than four miles—One pound and five shillings per annum for the section between two miles and three miles and five shillings per annum for each quarter mile or portion thereof for the section of the radial distance beyond three miles;

(c) Where the radial distance is more than four miles but not morethan five miles—Two pounds and five shillings per annum for the section between two miles and four miles and three shillings and nine pence per annum for each quarter mile or portion thereof for the section of the radial distance beyond four miles; and

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18th July, 1946.

 Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended to date. For previous Telephone Regulations, see Footnote   to Statutory, Rules 1941, No. 261; and see also Statutory Rules 1942, No. 504; and 1943, No. 141.

6916.—Price 3d.

 

(d) Where the radialdistance is more than five miles—Three pounds per annum for the section between two miles and five miles and two shillings and six pence per annum for each quarter mile or portion thereof for the section of the radial distance beyond five miles.

“(2.) In the case of a party service, the extra mileage charge payable in respect of each instrument shall be the amount obtained by dividing the total extra mileage charge payable for the line by the number of instruments served by the line.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation ‘radial distance’ means—

(a) in the case of an exclusive service—the radial distance from the exchange to the instrument: and

(b) in the case of a party service—the sum of—

(i) the radial distance from the exchange to the first instrument connected with the party service;

(ii) the radial distance from the first break-off to the second instrument connected with the party service; and

(iii) this radial distance from each next succeeding break-off to each next succeeding instrument connected with the party service.”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.