STATUTORY RULES.
1957. No. 41.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.
Dated this 7th day of August, 1957.
W. J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
Amendments of the Telegraph Regulations.†
1. Regulation 2 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Parts.
“2. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary (Regulations 1-4).
Part II.—Inland Telegrams (Regulations 5-70).
Part III—International Telegrams (Regulations 71-74).
Part IV.—Phonograms—Transmission of Telegrams by Telephone from or to Subscribers (Regulations 75-77).
Part V.—Private Telegraph Channels (Regulation 78).
Definitions.
2. Regulation 3 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting the definitions of “Australia” and “Commonwealth telegram” or “telegram”;
(b) by omitting the definition of “International telegram” and inserting in its stead the following definitions:—
“‘inland telegram’ means a telegram transmitted from one place in Australia to another place in Australia;
‘International telegram’ means a telegram transmitted—
(a) from a place in Australia to a place outside Australia and the Territories of the Commonwealth; or
(b) from a place outside Australia and the Territories of the Commonwealth to a place in Australia;”;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th August, 1957.
† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 35, 88 and 97; 1929, Nos. 15 and 128; 1930, Nos. 1, 5, 42, 81, 114 and 129; 1931, Nos. 70, 132 and 136; 1933, Nos. 102 and 127; 1934, Nos. 24, 113 and 137; 1935, No. 77; 1938, No. 63; 1939, Nos. 14 and 84; 1940, Nos. 50, 87 and 102; 1942, No. 550; 1943, Nos. 215 and 242; 1944, No. 91; 1945, No. 10; 1946, No. 139; 1948, No. 23; 1949, Nos. 19 and 91; 1950, No. 91; 1951, Nos. 23, 73 and 90; 1952, Nos. 6, 35 and 78; 1954, No. 5; 1955, No. 58; and 1956, No. 69.
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(c) by omitting paragraph (b) of the definition of “plain language” and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(b) numbers which do not have a secret meaning, written in—
(i) letters; or
(ii) numbers;”;
(d) by omitting paragraph (c) of the definition of “plain language” and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(c) commercial marks, trade marks, designations of goods, arbitrary technical terms used to denote machines or parts of machines, reference numbers or indications and other expressions of the same kind consisting of—
(i) letters, figures or signs;
(ii) a mixture of letters and figures;
(iii) a mixture of letters and signs;
(iv) a mixture of figures and signs; or
(v) a mixture of letters, figures and signs,
where the marks, designations, technical terms, reference numbers or indications and other expressions appear in a catalogue available to the public or in a price list, invoice, bill of lading or other commercial document;”; and
(e) by inserting, after the definition of “secret language”, the following definition:—
“telegram” means an inland telegram;”.
Heading to Part II.
3. The Telegraph Regulations are amended by omitting the heading to Part II. and inserting in its stead the following heading:—
“Part II.—Inland Telegrams.”.
Repeal.
4. Regulations 14 and 15 of the Telegraph Regulations are repealed.
Address of telegrams.
5. Regulation 17 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (4.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(4.) A telegram addressed to a person by name or by his official title at a registered code address, shall not be accepted for transmission unless the word ‘care’ or its equivalent appears immediately before the registered code address.”; and
(b) by omitting sub-regulation (7.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(7.) A telegram addressed to a person by name or by his official title at a telephone number or at a teleprinter exchange number, together with the name of the telegraph office to which the telegram is to be transmitted shall be accepted for transmission.
“(8.) A telegram addressed to a telephone number or to a teleprinter exchange number, together with the name of the telegraph office to which the telegram is to be transmitted, shall be accepted for transmission only if the sender writes, before the number, the supplementary instruction, ‘Telephone’ or ‘Tex’, as the case requires, which shall be counted and charged as part of the telegram.”.
Repeal.
6. Regulation 19 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed.
Registered code addresses.
7. Regulation 21 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “Commonwealth telegrams” and inserting in their stead the words “inland telegrams”;
(b) by omitting from that sub-regulation the words “in the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the words “in Australia”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (6.) the word “Commonwealth” and inserting in its stead the word “inland”;
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (8.) the word “Commonwealth”; and
(e) by omitting from sub-regulation (11.) the word “Commonwealth” and inserting in its stead the word “inland”.
Method of counting.
8. Regulation 25 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraph:—
“(ii) a telephone number of a telephone subscriber or a teleprinter exchange number of a teleprinter exchange subscriber (including a number consisting partly of figures and partly of letters), together with the name, if any, of the telephone exchange or teleprinter exchange that precedes the number;”; and
(b) by omitting paragraph (d) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(d) subject to sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 38 of these Regulations the two signs which, together, mark off a parenthesis;”.
Counting of plain language telegrams.
9. Regulation 26 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting the words “paragraph (b) and (c)”, and inserting in their stead the words “sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) or paragraph (c),”.
Certain ordinal and cardinal numbers and sums of money when written as one word to be counted as one word.
10. Regulation 32 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting after the word “hyphen” the words “(which the sender does not expressly request be transmitted)”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(2.) Where the sender expressly requests that the hyphen joining the two parts of a word referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation be transmitted, each part of the word shall be counted as a separate word.”.
Counting of groups containing figures, letters and signs.
11. Regulation 38 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(3.) A full stop, hyphen, comma, dash, bar or each of the pair of marks forming a bracket shall, when used in—
(a) a group of characters which are counted at the rate of one word for each five characters contained in the group; or
(b) secret language,
be counted as a character in the group in which it occurs and shall be transmitted in all cases.”.
Undelivered telegrams to be destroyed after six weeks.
12. Regulation 52 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by inserting in the proviso to sub-regulation (1.), after the word “post”, the words “in accordance with regulation 47 of these Regulations”.
Re-direction and re-transmission of telegrams.
13. Regulation 57 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulations (1.) and (3.) the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “a Commonwealth” and “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the words “an inland” and “Australia”, respectively.
Multiple telegrams.
14. Regulation 58 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (7.) the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”.
Collect telegrams.
15. Regulation 60 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”.
Local messages.
16. Regulation 61 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”.
Lettergrams (Letter-telegrams).
17. Regulation 62 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulations (1.) and (13.) the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”.
Repeal.
18. Regulation 66 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed.
Registered code address.
19. Regulation 72 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the word “Commonwealth” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead in each place the Word “inland”.
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (7.) the word “Commonwealth”.
Order of Transmission.
20. Regulation 73 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting the words “of Commonwealth” and inserting in its stead the words “over inland”.
Re-direction of International telegrams to places within Australia.
21. Regulation 74 of the Telegraph Regulations is amended by omitting the words “the Commonwealth” and inserting in their stead the word “Australia”.
22. Regulation 76 of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Telephoning and delivery of telegrams addressed to telephone numbers.
“76.—(1.) A telegram addressed to a telephone number or to a person by name at a telephone number shall be transmitted by telephone from the telegraph office of destination to the telephone number without charge.
“(2.) A telegram, not being a telegram addressed in the manner referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation, may be transmitted without charge by telephone from the telegraph office of destination to the addressee at a telephone number if the addressee is prepared to accept delivery of the telegram by that means.
“(3.) The transmission of a telegram in accordance with either of the last two preceding sub-regulations, shall be deemed to be, for the purposes of these Regulations, the delivery of the telegram.
“(4.) A confirmatory copy of a telegram telephoned to the addressee in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (1.) or (2.) of this regulation shall—
(a) be posted without charge to the addressee if the addressee so requests; or
(b) be delivered by messenger if—
(i) the address of the addressee is situated within any of the areas specified in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 45 of these Regulations; and
(ii) the addressee undertakes to pay a charge of Six pence on the delivery of the telegram.”.
Heading to Part VI.
23. The heading to Part VI. of the Telegraph Regulations is repealed.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.