Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 145.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS 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 amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, namely:—

Telephone Regulations of 1913

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349),

Regulations 28 and 36,

should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this tenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen,

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE.

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1. Regulation 28 is amended by omitting the paragraph beginning with the words—“If the subscriber is supplied with a table telephone affixed to an adjustable bracket,” and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—

“If the subscriber is supplied with a common battery adjustable telephone bracket set, in which the telephone is either permanently affixed to the bracket, or in which the bracket provides for the support of the ordinary common battery table telephone, the rental shall be that for an ordinary common battery table telephone increased by 0 6 0.”

2. Regulation 36 is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

36. Where subscribers are resident beyond 1 mile radially from the Chief District Telegraph Office, the service provided for in Regulation 35 will be given free, but for subscribers situated within 1 mile radially from the Chief District Telegraph Office, the service will be charged for as provided in Regulation 37, if performed between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.; during other hours the service will be provided free.

C.12643.—Price 3d.

 

Provided that in places served by Allowance Post Offices, the service provided for in Regulation 35 will be given free to subscribers connected to such offices, whether the subscriber’s premises are situated within or beyond 1 mile radially from each office, in all cases where the service of telephoning telegrams does not involve the Department in any additional expense (such as extra payment to the postmaster).

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