Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1914. No. 11.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901–1912.

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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1912, namely:—

Amendment of Telephone Regulations 1913,

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349.)

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

Dated this thirteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

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Amendment of Telephone Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No, 349.)

The Regulations under this head are amended by repealing sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 21, and inserting the following sub-regulation in its stead:—

21. (1) (a)Should a subscriber’s telephone be removed at the subscriber’s request to another address or position within the same network, or should the subscriber require any alteration to be made, he shall, unless the rental payable by him is increased in consequence of the removal or alteration, pay the cost of the removal or alteration.

(b) Where the rental payable by the subscriber is not increased in consequence of the removal or alteration, the charges for such removal or alteration shall be in accordance with the following scale:—

1. Change of apparatus (but not its location), 7s. 6d

C.1867.—Price 3d.

2. Removal of telephone instrument, bell or extension bell to another position—

(i) within the same room, 9s.

(ii) to another room involving not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 15s.

(iii) to another room involving more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.

3. Reversal of position of main and extension sets when—

(i) they are in the same room, 10s.

(ii) they are in different rooms, and the change involves not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.

(iii) when the change involves more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 30s.

4. Alteration of on Exchange number at the subscriber’s request, 4s.

(c) Where the cost of travelling incurred in connexion with the execution of the removal or alteration amounts to more than 25 per cent. of the appropriate charge as set out in the preceding paragraph, the subscriber shall, in addition to such charge, pay the amount by which the cost of travelling exceeds 25 per cent. of the charge.

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