S.I. No. 193/1973:

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1973.

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1973.

I, CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, hereby make, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Telephone (Amendment) Regulations, 1973.

(2) The Telephone Regulations, 1959 to 1971, and these Regulations may be cited together as the Telephone Regulations, 1959 to 1973.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1973.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

4. In these Regulations--

" the No. 1 Regulations of 1971 "means the Telephone (Amendment) Regulations, 1971 ( S.I. No. 63 of 1971 );

" the No. 2 Regulations of 1971 "means the Telephone (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1971 ( S.I. No. 269 of 1971 ).

5. (1) The Telephone Regulations, 1959 ( S.I. No. 118 of 1959 ), shall be amended by:

(a) the substitution of "2p" for "1.66p" in Regulation 5 (2) (a) (inserted therein by Regulation 5 (a) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971);

(b) the substitution of "2.75p" for "1.75p" in Regulation 5 (2) (b) (inserted therein by Regulation 5 (b) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971);

(c) the substitution of "3p" for "2p" in Regulation 5 (3) (a) (inserted therein by Regulation 5 (c) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971);

(d) the substitution of "3p" for "2p" in Regulation 5 (3) (b) (inserted therein by Regulation 5 (d) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971);

(e) the substitution of the following for the Second Schedule (inserted therein by Regulation 4 (a) of the No. 2 Regulations of 1971):

"SECOND SCHEDULE

Charges for Subscriber Dialled Trunk Calls

In respect of each period or part of a period of time specified in the Table to this Schedule which is appropriate to the call and during which the call continues--

(a) the sum of 2p shall be charged to a subscriber without a coinbox, and

(b) the sum of 3p shall be paid by a caller from a call office for the first period of time, 2p for the second period of time and 2p for the third period of time; and if the length of the call exceeds those periods combined, the aforementioned cycle of payment shall apply in relation to such further time as the call continues.

(g) the substitution of the following Table for the Table in the Fourth Schedule (inserted by Regulation 5 (u) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971 and amended by Regulation 4 (b) of the No. 2 Regulations of 1971):

";

";

(h) the substitution of the following Table for the Table in the Fifth Schedule (inserted by Regulation 5 (u) of the No. 1 Regulations of 1971 and amended by Regulation 4 (c) of the No. 2 Regulations of 1971):

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(2) In Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations the following are hereby revoked, namely:

"and in respect of every subscriber dialled trunk call made from a coinbox exchange line" in paragraph (2); and paragraph (3).

(3) In accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of this regulation hereof, paragraphs (2) and (3) of Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations shall have effect as set out in Part I of the Table to this regulation and Regulation 8 (2) of the Principal Regulations shall have effect as set out in Part II of the said Table.

Table

Part I

(2) In respect of every call made by a subscriber to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded as adjacent to the telephone group of the subscriber making the call there shall be charged to the subscriber and paid by him--

(a) if he rents an exchange line without a coinbox--the sum of 2p,

(b) if he rents a coinbox exchange line--the sum of 2.75p.

(3) (a) In respect of every call made by a caller from a call office to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded as adjacent to the telephone group of the call office from which the call is being made there shall be charged the sum of 3p,

(b) In respect of every call made from a coinbox exchange line to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded as adjacent to the telephone group of the coinbox exchange line from which the call is being made there shall be placed in the coinbox the sum of 3p.

Part II

(2) In respect of every subscriber dialled trunk call made by a caller from a call office there shall be placed in the coinbox a sum calculated in accordance with the Second Schedule to these Regulations which is appropriate to the call.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th day of July, 1973.

CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

RICHIE RYAN.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 12th day of July, 1973.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of these regulations is to amend the Telephone Regulations 1959 to 1971 to provide for the following alterations in charges:--