Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 28.

 

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 undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations:

Part I., Telephone Exchanges;

Part XIII., Telephone Lines connecting with Trunk Line Switchboards, or Telegraph Offices only;

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

Dated this second day of March, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

Part I., Telephone Exchanges.

The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) are amended by adding the following paragraph to Regulation 12, viz.:—

Provided also that where the cost of construction of a line exceeds the first year’s rental, but not the total rental of the first and second years, the subscriber shall be required to pay one year’s rental in advance, and to enter into an agreement to pay rental for the line for a further year.

 

Part XIII., Telephone Lines connecting with Trunk Line Switchboards, or Telegraph Offices only.

Regulations 81 and 82 under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114, and 1908, No. 6) are repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

81. Telephone lines connecting a subscriber with a telephone trunk line switchboard only, and not available for any purpose other than conversations over trunk lines, for which conversations the rates specified in Regulation 52 are to be paid, and telephone lines connecting a subscriber with a telegraph office for use only in connexion with the transmission of telegrams at the prescribed rates, or telephone lines used for both the purposes named, will be provided on payment of the following rates annually, in advance, and subject to the same general conditions as lines to telephone exchanges, Part I.

C.3453.—Price 3d.

 

Where the complete service is provided by the Postmaster-General—

For a line not exceeding two miles radially from the trunk line switchboard or telegraph office, together with one wall instrument for use by the subscriber, and the necessary connexion to the trunk line switchboard or telegraph office, £ 3.

For each additional quarter-mile of line, or fraction thereof, 10s.

82. Where the service is provided partly by the Postmaster-General and partly by the applicant—

For a line (single wire circuit) not exceeding two miles radially from the switchboard or telegraph office, with the necessary connexion thereto, £2 5s.

For a line (metallic circuit) not exceeding two miles radially from the switchboard or telegraph office, with the necessary connexion thereto, £2 17s. 6d.

For each additional quarter-mile of line (single circuit) or portion thereof, 6s. 3d.

For each additional quarter-mile of line (metallic circuit) or portion thereof, 9s. 5d.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Government Printer, Melbourne.