STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 85.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from 1st September, 1927.

Dated this third day of August, 1927.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

Amendment of Post and Telegraph Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 314 is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following further proviso:—

“Provided further that the charges on telegrams lodged for transmission by telephone or delivered by telephone shall be charged to the subscribers’ telephone accounts.”

2. Regulation 355 is amended by inserting at the end of (b) in sub-regulation (1) the words—

“or (c) by telephone”.

3. Regulation 372a is amended—

(a) by omitting all after “at that office” in sub-regulation (7) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:—

“Where the use of a trunk line is involved the trunk line charges for the call shall be calculated on the basis of three minutes for each group of thirty paid words or portion thereof transmitted.”

(b) Sub-regulation (8) is repealed.

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