Cap. 173 Rey. 1985 Subsidiary Legislation Telecommunications 8-15 Transfer of charges 48. Charges may be debited by a caller to another subscriber’s account if accepted by that other subscriber at the charge prescribed in the First Schédule. (Inserted by. Regulations 8 November 1961. ) . Rural lines . . 49. The Permanent Secretary may, in his discretion, supply teleph one service by means of multi-party lines known. as rural lines— , (a) in the case of connections to an exchange, other than on the south coast of Vanua Levu or on Taveuni to any person requiring the supply of "such service at a distance of more than 2 miles from the nearést exchange; and Le . . : (6) in the case of connections to any exchange on the south coast of Vanua Levu or on Taveuni, to any. person requiring the supply of such Service: : : : . Provided that— . (i) rural lines may only be supplied where ‘there are 5 or more persons requiring them;. and if the number of subscribers on any rural line falls below 5 the remaining subscribers shall, from the first day of the next half-yearly rental period, be chargeable at the rates prescr ibed for party line connections; and o (ii) should the number of subscribers.to a party line, being persons eligible _ for a rural line, rise.to 5 or more they shall, from the first day of the next half-yearly rental period, be chargeable at- the rate for rural connections:: . . (Substituted by Regulations 21 February . 1966.) Regrouping party and rural lines line : 50. The Permanent Secretary may regroup the subscribers on party lines and tural lines and may make additional connections to lines of either type without the consent of the existing subscribers, provided that the existing subscribers shall not be required to pay a higher rate of rental in respect of their existing connections. Overloadéd party lines : 51. When in the opinion of the Permanent Secretary the number of calls originated or received by any subscriber connected with a party line precludes a reasonable use of the line by the other parties the Permanent Secretary may require the subscriber either to rent an individual line or to be transferred to a line with which there will be a lesser number .of parties connected, -+ Overloaded .individual lines 52. With-a view to reducing the number of ineffective calls due to overloaded lines the Permanent Secretary may require any subscriber on whose line or lines the number of such calls exceeds 25 per cent of the number of effective incoming calls, to rent an additional circuit, in default of which teleph one service may be discontinued. .