Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 230.

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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 twenty third day ofOctober, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of November, 1940.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 4 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by inserting, after the definition “Telephone”, the following definition:—

“‘Telephone exchange line’ means any telephone line connecting a subscriber’s premises directly with an exchange;”.

Free entries.

3. Regulation 75 of the Telephone Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Unless otherwise prescribed in these Regulations, one entry shall be made without charge in each issue of the Telephone Directory covering the exchange to which the service connects in respect of any telephone exchange line or lines leased by a subscriber and, where there is more than one such line, terminating in the same premises:

Provided that the Department may, if it is of opinion that the nature of a subscriber’s telephone installation is such that an additional entry or entries is or are necessary for identification purposes, make at its discretion an additional entry or additional entries without charge.”

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1927. No. 145, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 99; 1929, Nos. 122 and 133; 1930, Nos. 2. 7, 15, 54 and 112; 1931, Nos. 86 and 137; 1932, No. 16; 1933, Nos. 13, 14, 56, 64, 84 and 135; 1934 Nos. 30 and 114; 1935, Nos. 25, 26, 93, 96 and 121; 1936, No. 121; 1937, Nos. 14, 36 and 86; 1938, No. 4; 1939, Nos. 34 and 130; and 1940, Nos.. 14 and 28.

 

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

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