Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1909. No. 67.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

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 following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 21st day of June, One thousand nine hundred and nine.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN QUICK.

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Telephone Regulations.

Part I.—Telephone Exchanges.

1. In these Regulations Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114, as amended by subsequent Statutory Rules, arc referred to as the Telephone Regulations.

2.Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Regulation 7b of the Telephone Regulations arc repealed, and all notices given under the said sub-section (2) shall be deemed to have been withdrawn, and shall be of no effect.

3. After Regulation 7b of the Telephone Regulations, the following Regulations are inserted:—

“7c. (1) Until the appointed day mentioned in the next following Regulation,

(a)every person who was a subscriber at the nineteenth day of March, 1909, shall continue to pay the rates for which he was liable before this Regulation was made;

(b)every person who became a subscriber after the nineteenth day of March, 1909, but before the commencement of this Regulation, may within one month from the commencement of this Regulation elect to pay as from the date of his becoming a subscriber the rates prescribed by Regulation 7, and if he fails to so elect shall continue to pay the rates prescribed by Regulation 7a; and

(c) every person becoming a subscriber after the date of these Regulations shall pay the rates prescribed by Regulation 7.

 

(2) This Regulation and the next following Regulation shall not apply in the case of lines which are subject to Regulation 34of these Regulations.”

“7d. (1) The Postmaster-General may, by notice published in the Gazette, fix a day (in these Regulations referred to as the appointed day) being not less than one month after the date of the publication of the notice.

(2) After the appointed day, all subscribers, whether they were or were not subscribers at the nineteenth day of March, 1909, shall pay the rates prescribed by the Regulations in force at the appointed day with respect to new subscribers:

Provided that, with regard to any person who become a subscriber before the nineteenth day of March, 1909, but within one year before the appointed day the day on which the period of one year from his becoming a subscriber expires shall be deemed to be the appointed day.

(3) Any such subscriber may, within fourteen days before the appointed day notify, in writing, to the Deputy Postmaster-General his Intention to discontinue the use of his line or any extension thereof from and after the appointed day, in which case rent will be charged only to the appointed day.”

 

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