Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 42.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1919.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following amended Regulation under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, to come into operation on the 1st April, 1922.

Dated this twenty-second day of March, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. POYNTON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 1920.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 256, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 21 is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (c), and

(b) by omitting from paragraphs (d) and (e) the distinguishing letters (d) and (e) and inserting in their stead the distinguishing letters (c) and (d), respectively.

2. Regulation 22 is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “and land stations”.

(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1).

(c) by omitting the distinguishing letter (d) from sub-paragraph (d) and inserting in its stead the distinguishing letter (c).

(d) by omitting paragraph (2a) and inserting the following paragraph in its stead:—

(2a) For Government messages to and from ships—

(a) Coast station charge—1d. per word.

(b) Ship station charge—half ordinary rates.

(c) Land line charge—1d. per word.

3. Regulation 23 is omitted and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

23. (1) The rates for messages exchanged between stations established on the Australian mainland or in Tasmania and stations established on islands within the Commonwealth administration or between any stations established on such islands except Flinders Island and King Island shall be—

(a) For ordinary messages—6d. per word.

 

(b) For press messages—

s.	d.
Not exceeding 50 words..................................................................	2	6
Every additional 50 words or portion thereof....................................	2	6

(2) The rates for messages exchanged between stations established on the Australian mainland or in Tasmania and stations established on King and Flinders islands shall be—

(a) For ordinary messages—2s. 8d. for sixteen words or portion thereof, and 2d. for each additional word.

(b) For traffic exchanged between ships and the mainland viâ King or Flinders islands—1d. per word in addition to the charges prescribed in regulation 22 (1).

(c) For press messages—

s.	d.
Not exceeding 50 words..................................................................	2	6
Every additional 50 words or portion thereof....................................	2	6

(3) The rates for messages exchanged between stations established on the Australian mainland or in Tasmania shall be—2s. 8d. for sixteen words or portion thereof, and 2d. for each additional word.

(4) The rates for the radio-telegraphic transmission of deferred and week-end telegrams shall be one-half and one-quarter of the ordinary rates respectively.

(5) Delivery charges, if any, shall in all cases be paid by the addressee.

4. The following regulation is inserted after regulation 25:—

Trans-Oceanic Press Radio-telegrams.

25a. Trans-Oceanic press radio-telegrams, bearing no address, shall be accepted for broadcast transmission. The charges shall be—

(a) Coast station charge—1d. per word.

(b) Land line charge—1d. per word.

 

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