Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 127.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1910.

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 1901-1910, namely:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part XVII.—Erection of Public Telegraph or Telephone Lines under Guarantee,

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

Dated this first day of May, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. FINDLEY

 

Telephone Regulations.

Part XVII—Erection of Public Telegraph or Telephone Lines under Guarantee.

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

(a) by repealing paragraph (II.) of Regulation 106, and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—

“(II.) The applicants shall enter into a joint and several bond in a sum to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, conditioned to make good, during a period of seven years after the completion of the line, an amount equal to 50 per centum of the amount by which—

(a) the estimated revenue, or

(b) the actual revenue

(whichever of those is the greater) falls short of a minimum revenue’; and

   

C.6073.—Price 3d.

 

(b) by repealing Regulation 107 and inserting the following Regulation in its stead:—

“107. The sum deposited with the Postmaster-General shall be paid to the Trust Fund, and such sum shall be available for the purpose of making good, in any year, 50 per centum of the amount by which—

(a) the estimated revenue, or

(b) the actual revenue

(whichever of these is the greater) falls short of a minimum revenue, and the sums required for that purpose may be withdrawn from the Trust Fund, and the accrued interest thereon, where necessary, may also be drawn from an Expenditure Vote and paid to the Consolidated Revenue Fund at such times as the Postmaster-General thinks fit.”

 

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