STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1966.

Dated this eighth day of March, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of Postmaster-General

Postmaster-General.

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Amendments of the Telephone Regulations†

Reversed charge trunk calls.

Regulation 135b of the Telephone Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “and”;

(b) by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph:—

“(aa) the telephonist at the exchange at which the order for the call is placed does not reject the request; and”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) The Director may, in order to prevent abuse of the reversed charge facility referred to in this regulation, direct that the facility is not available in specified circumstances and the telephonist at the exchange at which an order for a call is placed shall not reject a request under paragraph (aa) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation unless the call is a call in respect of which such a direction is applicable.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 145, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 99; 1929, Nos. 122 and 133; 1930, Nos. 2, 7, 15, 54 and 112; 1931, Nos. 86 and 137; 1932, No. 16; 1933, Nos. 13, 14, 56, 64, 84 and 135; 1934, Nos. 30 and 114; 1935, Nos. 25, 26, 93, 96 and 121; 1936, No. 121; 1937, Nos. 14, 36 and 86; 1938, No. 4; 1939, Nos. 34 and 130; 1940, Nos. 14, 28 and 230; 1941, Nos. 15, 126, 236 and 261; 1942, No. 504; 1943, No. 141; 1946, No. 118; 1948, No. 113; 1949, No. 39; 1950, No. 92; 1951, No. 74; 1954, No. 29; 1955, Nos. 27, 59 and 73; 1956, Nos. 68 and 76; 1957, Nos. 21, and 46; 1958, No. 14; 1959, No. 83; 1960, Nos. 26, 71, 79, 88, 95, 100 and 101; 1961, Nos. 8, 9, 17, 26, 41, 47, 56, 66, 70, 75 , 80, 85, 94, 106, 109, 113, 115, 119, 124, and 135; 1962, Nos. 5, 9, 13 , 25, 35, 52, 54, 65, 78 and 104; 1963, Nos. 7, 30, 49, 68, 96 and 132; 1964, Nos. 485, 102 and 123; 1965, Nos. 11, 14, 21 and 34; 1966, Nos. 22 and 147; and 1967, Nos. 88 and 157.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

12346/68—Price 5c 9/8.2.1968