Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 319.

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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:—

Telephone Regulations,

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges,

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

Dated this tenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AGAR WYNNE.

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Telephone Regulations.

Part I. —Telephone Exchanges.

Regulation 24 under this head (Statutory Rules 1912, No. 65, as amended by Statutory Rules 1913, No. 274) is repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead;—

“24. (1) Persons occupying offices in the same building, or occupying the same private residence, may jointly subscribe under the one exchange number, on payment (in addition to rental as for one person at the respective rates prescribed by these Regulations) of £1 per annum for each, additional subscriber. The fee of £1 per annum covers the insertion of the additional subscriber’s name in the Telephone List. If an additional subscriber should require discontinuance of this service, it shall be necessary for him to give three months’ notice to that effect.

C.16924.—Price 3d.

“(2) Visitors who are residing in premises where there is a telephone connected to an exchange, may have their names inserted in the Telephone List on payment of a fee of Five shillings per quarter. Payment for calls, which is not included in the above-mentioned fee, must be arranged between the subscriber and the visitor.

“(3) Theoriginal subscriber shall pay to the Postmaster-General all charges in connexion with the line, but may charge to the second subscriber any agreed proportion of such charges.

“(4) If additional instruments are required, the subscribers shall pay the rates prescribed for party lines*; extra instruments  ; or extension lines‡; whichever may be applicable.”

* See Regulation 5.

  See Regulation 28.

‡ See Regulation 27 and part XII.

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