Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 1.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, hereby certify that the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—

Telephone Regulations.

Part 1.—Telephone Exchanges;

Part XV.—Telephone lines in country districts partly erected by the Postmaster-General, and which connect with Telephone Exchanges,

should come into operation on the 1st January, 1908, as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and seven.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s command,

SAMUEL MAUGER.

 

Telephone Regulations.

The regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1906, No. 114), are amended as shown hereunder, viz.:—

Part 1.—Telephone Exchanges.

(1) By substituting the words “two miles” for the words “one mile’’ in the fourth paragraph of regulation 7; and

(2) By repealing regulation 8 and substituting the following regulation in lieu thereof:—

8. Extra mileage charges.—When the radial length of any line exceeds two miles, the following extra mileage charges shall be made:—

For each quarter mile or portion thereof—

Exclusive services, 10s. per annum.

Two-party services, 5s. per annum per subscriber or instrument.

Three or more party services, 2s. 6d. per annum per subscriber or instrument.

C. 501.—Price 3d.

Part XV.—Telephone lines in country districts partly erected by the Postmaster-General, and which connect with Telephone Exchanges.

By repealing sub-section (d) of regulation 108, and substituting in lieu thereof:—

(d)For any portion of the line erected by the Department, the following annual charges shall be made:—

For any distance up to two miles, single wire or metallic circuits, as may be necessary, £ 4.

For each additional quarter mile, or portion thereof, of single wire, 6s. 3d.; of metallic circuit, 9s. 5d.

The foregoing amendments shall come into operation on 1st January, 1908, but shall not apply to any subscriber existing on 31st December, 1907, until the next payment of rent after that date is due by him.

 

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