STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. .

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950 AND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1950.*

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 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1950.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1955.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations.†

Business outside normal hours.

1. Regulation 8 of the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “after the normal hours of service” and inserting in their stead the words “at a time when the office is not normally open”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) In a case of a specially urgent nature, where it is not possible to give the notice referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation—

(a) a telephone message may be transmitted from, through or to an official office, at a time when the office is not normally open, if—

(i) the attention of an officer at the office can be obtained;

(ii) the fee referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is paid in respect of each office required to be opened; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

† Statutory Rules 1933, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 136; 1938, No. 62; 1940, Nos. 101 and 156; and 1951, No. 24.

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(iii) the prescribed telephone unit fee or trunk line charge is paid;

(b) a telegram may be transmitted from, through or to a telegraph office at a place that is not connected to the general telephone trunk line network, at a time when the office is not normally open, if—

(i) the attention of an officer at the office can be obtained;

(ii) the fee referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is paid in respect of each office required to be opened; and

(iii) the prescribed telegraph charges are paid;

(c) a message for onward transmission as a telegram may be telephoned to the nearest telegraph office that is open by a person at a place connected to the general telephone trunk line network, at a time when the telegraph office at that place is closed, if—

(i) the telephone exchange at that place is open; and

(ii) the fees payable under paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (5.) of regulation 75 of the Telegraph Regulations, or under paragraph (b) of that sub-regulation, whichever is applicable, and the prescribed telegraph charges, are paid; and

(d) a telegram may be transmitted to a place connected to the general telephone trunk line network, at a time when the telegraph office at that place is closed, if—

(i) the telephone exchange at that place is open; and

(ii) the prescribed telegraph charges, and the prescribed trunk line charges to that place from the nearest telegraph office to that place that is open, are paid.

“(4.) Where paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of the last preceding sub-regulation, or any two of those paragraphs, are applicable in respect of a telegram, the fees and charges payable for the transmission of the telegram are the prescribed telegraph charges and the sum of the fees and charges (other than the prescribed telegraph charges) referred to in such of those paragraphs as are applicable.”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (6.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(6.) A telegram shall not be transmitted—

(a) in pursuance of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation; or

(b) in a case where its transmission to its destination requires the opening of a telegraph office other than the office from which the telegram is transmitted,

unless it bears before the address a supplementary instruction (to be counted and charged for as one word) consisting of the total amount paid for the transmission of the telegram, excluding the prescribed telegraph charges, together with the expression ‘AHFPAID’.”.

Re-numbering of regulation 9 inserted by Statutory Rules 1938, No. 62.

2. Regulation 9 inserted in the Postal and Telegraphic Services (General) Regulations by regulation 2 of Statutory Rules 1938, No. 62 is re-numbered regulation 8a.

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