Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 21.

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 new Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part XIX.—Miscellaneous, Printing of Telephone Lists,

should come into immediate operation, and make the new Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this thirteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

Part XIX.—Miscellaneous.

The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114) are amended by the insertion of the following new Regulation after Regulation 126:—

Printing of Telephone Lists.

126a. (1) Any person who, without the authority of the Postmaster-General, prints, publishes, or circulates, or authorizes the printing, publishing, or circulating of, any list of all or any of the Subscribers connected with any Telephone Exchange shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds.

(2) All lists published in contravention of this Regulation shall be forfeited to the Postmaster-General, and shall on demand, in writing, be delivered up to him.

 

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

C.2944.—Price 3d.