Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 180.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

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 Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913, should come into immediate operation, and make the amended Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. SPENCE,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Telephone Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 349, as Amended by Statutory Rules, 1915, No 42).

Sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 21 is repealed, and the following Sub-regulation is inserted in its stead:—

21. (1) (a) Should a subscriber’s telephone be removed at the subscriber’s request to another address or position within the same network he shall pay the cost of the removal. In cases where the rental is not increased such cost shall be the actual cost of labour, plus the value of the material used in wiring the premises (reckoned from the first pole outside the subscriber’s premises), less the value of the material recoverable from the former premises. In cases where the rental is increased consequent upon the removal, such cost shall be the actual cost of labour required on wiring the premises, and the cost of refitting the telephone apparatus.

(b) Should a subscriber require a removal or alteration of his telephone within the same premises the charges for such removal or alteration shall be in accordance with the following scale: Provided that the Deputy Postmaster-General may reduce the charge to be made for any removal or alteration in any case as to which he is satisfied that the circumstances warrant the reduction:—

1. Change of apparatus (but not its location) with increase in rental, nil.

2. Change of apparatus (but not its location), without increase in rental, 7s, 6d.

C.13085—Price 3d.

3. Removal of telephone instrument, bell, or extension bell to another position—

(i) within the same room, 9s.;

(ii) to another room involving not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 15s.;

(iii) to another room involving more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.;

4. Reversal of position of main and extension sets when—

(i) they are in the same room, 16s.;

(ii) they are in different rooms, and the change involves not more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 25s.;

(iii) the change involves more than 50 yards of internal wiring, 30s.;

5. Alteration of an Exchange number at the subscriber’s request, 4s. Provided that where, owing to an increase in the subscriber’s installation, it is desirable in the interests of both the subscriber and the Department that consecutive numbers should be given, no charge shall be made.

(c) Where the cost of travelling incurred in connexion with the execution of the removal or alteration amounts to more than 25 per cent. of the appropriate charge as set out in this Sub-regulation, the subscriber shall, in addition to such charge, pay the amount by which the cost of travelling exceeds 25 per cent. of the charge

 

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