Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 50.

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, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1915, No. 270.)

Regulation 47(4) and (5).

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

Dated this fourteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations, 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as amended by Statutory Rules 1915, No. 270.)

Sub-regulations (4) and (5) of Regulation 47 are repealed, and the following sub-regulations are inserted in their stead:—

(4) The fee prescribed in this Regulation shall be paid for the use of any public telephone situated within 10 miles radially from the Central Telephone Exchange in the case of Telephone Exchange or Networks having over 1,500 subscribers’ lines connected within a radius of 10 miles from the central Telephone Exchange, or situated within 5 miles in the case of other Exchanges or Networks, except for calls between an isolated and any other Exchange.

(5) For the use of public telephones beyond these distances respectively and for conversations between an isolated and any other Exchange the trunk line charges specified in Regulation 51 shall be paid.

 

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