Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1912, namely :—

Telephone Regulations.

Part VI.—Telephone Junction and Trunk Lines.

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

Dated this twenty-fourth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

AGAR WYNNE,

Telephone Regulations.

Part VI.—Telephone Junction and Trunk Lines.

The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1912, No. 65) are amended—

1. By repealing Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 52 and inserting the following Sub-regulation in its stead : —

" 52. (1) Subscribers to Telephone Exchanges may use the trunk lines, when required, by paying the trunk-line fees prescribed by Regulation 51. Trunk-line calls made by any subscriber shall be recorded and included in the subscriber's half-yearly account for calls, prescribed by Regulation 5 (3), provided that the total fees for such trunk-line calls do not exceed Five shillings in any half-yearly accounting period. If the subscriber's estimated requirements in respect of trunk-line calls for any half-yearly accounting period exceed Five shillings, a sum of money equal to the subscriber's estimated requirements for one month, but not less than Five shillings, shall be deposited by the subscriber in advance. Accounts concerning the expenditure of money so deposited shall be rendered monthly, reimbursements must be made promptly, and, when notification has been made that an advance has been exhausted, no connexion will be made until the advance has been renewed."

and

2. By repealing Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 53 and inserting the following Sub-regulation in its stead : —

" 53. (1) The charges prescribed by this part of these Regulations only shall be made for calls over trunk lines."

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