Cap. 173 Rev. 1985
Subsidiary Legislation
Telecommunications
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(b) if it is listed in the telephone directory at the request of the subscriber
otherwise than as residential premises, or if the number allotted to
the connection is used in business advertisements or communications;
(c) if in any other way it is, in the opinion of the Permanent Secretary, being
used for business or professional purposes.
Public: telephones and rented coinbox telephones
37.—(1). Public call offices.and public telephones may be provided at
convenient points.
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(2) The charges for local-calls ‘made from a public telephone shall be as
prescribed in the First Schedule and the charges for trunk calls made from a public
telephone shall .be as prescribed in the Second Schedule.
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(3) The charges payable by users for calls from a-rented coin box’ telephone
shall be the same as for calls for a public telephone, but a subscriber renting the
coin box telephone shall be debited’with charges as prescribed for a subscriber’s
telephone in the First Schedule to these Regulations or.in the Second Schedule to
these Regulations, and may retain the difference.
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(Substituted. by :Legal Notice .72 of 1970.)
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Unit period of conversations
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The unit period of conversations shall be 3 minutes, reckoned from the .
time ‘the caller is informed that the connection .required is established.
Extension of conversations
39. Coversations may be prolonged provided that the full fee is paid for each
further unit period, but the Permanent Secretary shall have the right to terminate
any conversation
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expiration
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of 6 minutes
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Call office instructions to be observed
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40. The instructions in the public call office directing users as to the procedure
to be. followed to obtain connection shall be. precisely observed; otherwise
connection will not be made even if an assurance is: given that the’ coin has been
deposited.
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Extension lines
41. Extension lines, either within or beyond the building or premises to which
the exchange line from which they are extended connects, may be provided at the
discretion of the Permanent Secretary and upon payment of the prescribed charges.
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Private branch exchanges
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42. .Private branch. exchanges may be provided and installed at-a subscriber's
premises at.the discretion of the Permanent Secretary and.upon payment of the
prescribed charges. The subscriber shall provide, at his own, cost, all necessary
operating attendants at the private branch exchange.
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Party tines
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At the discretion of the Permanent Secretary party-exchange.lines may be
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provided at reduced tariff rates if the parties are situated within an exchange radius
and their premises are located within a reasonable distance of each other. When by
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