STATUTORY RULES
1967 No. 130
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1966 AND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1966.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1966 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1966.
Dated this twenty-first day of September, 1967.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
Amendments of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of October, 1967.
Business outside ordinary hours.
2. Regulation 8 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “telephone unit fee” and inserting in their stead the words “local call fee”;
(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “telephone unit fee” and inserting in their stead the words “local call fee”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the word “Where” and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to the next succeeding regulation, where”.
3. After regulation 8 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Variation of charge.
“8aa.—(1.) This regulation applies to a message accepted for transmission as a telegram in pursuance of the last preceding regulation that is telephoned from a public telephone or from the telephone of a subscriber that is fitted with a Departmental coin attachment that is designed for the receipt of coins of two or more denominations.
“(2.) Where an amount equal to the sum of the charge payable for the transmission of a message to which this regulation applies and the additional fees and charges payable under the last preceding regulation for telephoning the
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1967.
† Statutory Rules 1933, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 136; 1938, No. 62; 1940, Nos. 101 and 156; 1951, No. 24; 1955, No. 57; 1956, No. 84; 1958, No. 4; 1959, Nos. 86 and 102; 1963, No. 50; and 1966, No. 26.
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message to a telegraph office is not a multiple of Five cents, there is payable, in place of the additional fees and charges so payable, an additional fee such that the sum of the charge for the transmission of the message and the additional fee is an amount equal to the multiple of Five cents that is next above that first-mentioned amount.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra