STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 211.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905.

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 Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905, namely:—

Wireless Telegraphy Regulations.

Ocean Forecasts and Weather Reports,

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

Dated this seventeenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. E. FRAZER.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS.

The Regulations under this head (Statutory Rules 1911 No. 128) are amended by inserting after the Regulation under the head of “Charges’’ the following Regulation:—

“Ocean Forecasts and Weather Reports.

Ocean forecasts sent by the Commonwealth Meteorologist will be transmitted from radiotelegraph stations owned, operated, and maintained by or on behalf of the Postmaster-General to vessels at sea, and weather reports received at such radiotelegraph stations from vessels at sea, and addressed to the Commonwealth Meteorologist, will be transmitted, on payment of the following charges:—

For each communication not exceeding 20 words, 2s.; for each additional word, 1d.; plus the ordinary land line charges.”

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.15661.—Price 3d.