Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1968.*

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 1901-1968.

Dated this twenty-first day of November, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 

Illegal or Improper use of telephone service.

Regulation 62 of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “the Department” (first occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “the Director”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, a subscriber or a person shall be deemed to have been convicted of carrying on an illegal business at a specified place if he is convicted of an offence committed at that place and—

(a) it is established that the telephone service provided at that place was used by that person in the commission of the offence; or

(b) the offence is of a kind the commission of which is facilitated by the use of a telephone service.

“(3a.) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-regulation, an offence shall be deemed to be an offence the commission of which is facilitated by the use of a telephone service—

(a) if the offence is an offence against the law of a State or Territory relating to gaming or wagering;

(b) if the offence is the offence of using premises or a place, or permitting or suffering premises or a place to be used, in contravention of the law of a State or Territory or relating to gaming or wagering;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Telephone Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1968, No. 18, and see also Statutory Rules 1968, No. 18.

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(c) if the offence is the offence of selling or supplying intoxicating liquor at a place other than premises licensed under the law of a State or Territory relating to the licensing of premises for the sale of intoxicating liquor in contravention of such a law;

(d) if the offence is the offence of selling or supplying intoxicating liquor at a time other than a time at which the sale of intoxicating liquor is authorised by or under the law of a State or Territory; or

(e) if the offence is the offence of keeping a common gaming house, common betting house, common bawdy house or house of disorderly entertainment.”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “the Department” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “the Director”.

 

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