Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 147.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the undermentioned Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 18th day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen,

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE.

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of Telephone Regulations 1913.

The Telephone Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349) are amended by inserting therein after Regulation 4a the following regulation:—

“4b. The Postmaster-General, or any officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department, shall not be liable to any action, claim, or demand for compensation for interruption, from whatever cause arising, of the service—

“(a) of any person who becomes a subscriber after the 18th day of August, 1915; or

“(b) of any person who, being a subscriber on the 18th day of August, 1915, renews his service after that date.”

 

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