Legalize / Ireland / Statutory Instrument

S.I. No. 317/1979 - Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1979

Type Statutory Instrument

Publication 1979-09-18

State In force

Text As published

Source Irish Statute Book

articles 5

This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

Reform history JSON API

S.I. No. 317 of 1979.

TELEX (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1979.

I, PADRAIG FAULKNER, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 2 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following Regulations:—

1.

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1979.

(2) The Telex Regulations, 1955 to 1979, and these Regulations may be cited together as the Telex Regulations, 1955 to 1979.

2.

These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1979.

3.

(1) In these Regulations "the 1955 Regulations" means the Telex Regulations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 229 of 1955 ).

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

4.

(1) The 1955 Regulations are hereby amended by:—

( a ) the substitution in Regulation 5 (1A) of "18p" for "15p" (inserted by Regulation 4 (1) (a) of the Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 73 of 1977 ),

( b ) the substitution in Regulation 29 of "55.5p" for "46.5p" (inserted by the said Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1977.

and

( c ) the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule (inserted by the said Telex (Amendment) Regulations, 1977:

(11) Regulations 5 (1A) and 29 of the 1955 Regulations, as amended by paragraph (1) of this Regulation, are set out in the Table to this Regulation.

TABLE

5.

(1A)—There shall be charged and paid in respect of every call made by a caller from a call office, in addition to the sum chargeable under paragraph (1) of this Regulation, a call office fee of 18p.

29.

If any subscription or any fee, charge, expense or damages payable by the subscriber under the agreement or under the other provisions of these Regulations is in arrear for fourteen days, excluding Sundays and public holidays, after the relative account has been rendered, or the subscriber has failed to offer such security as may be required by the Minister in accordance with Regulation 17, the Minister may, without notice, and without prejudice to the terms of the agreement or to the provisions of these Regulations, suspend service on the installation or disconnect the installation from the telex exchange and may make in respect of any restoration of service after suspension or disconnection under the terms of this Regulation a charge of 55.5p to be payable on demand.

"SCHEDULE"

PART I Charges for calls other than Subscriber Keyed Calls


Description of Call	Charge	Charge
1. A call between two installations connected with the same telex exchange	6.3p for each three minutes or part of three minutes	6.3p for each three minutes or part of three minutes
	For the first three minutes or part of three minutes	For each minute or part of a minute after the first three minutes
	p	p
2. Any other call to an installation in Ireland, the distance between the telex exchanges connected for the purpose of the call being in excess of 80 kilometres	18.9	6.3
3. A call to an installation in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands	37.8	12.6

PART II Charges for Subscriber Keyed Calls

The charge for a subscriber keyed call shall be the sum of 6.3p in respect of each period or part of a period of time specified in the Table to this part of this Schedule which is appropriate to the call and during which the call continues.


Description of Call	Period
1. A call between two installations connected with the same telex exchange	3 minutes
2. Any other call to an installation in Ireland, the distance between the telex exchanges connected for the purpose of the call being in excess of 80 Kilometres.	60 seconds
3. A call to an installation in Great Britain, the isle of Man or the Channel Islands	30 seconds

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of September, 1979.

PADRAIG FAULKNER.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 18th

day of September, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA.

This document does not substitute the official text published in the Irish Statute Book. We accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the transcription of the original into this format.

This text is published under Irish Statute Book's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. Irish Statute Book
CC-BY 4.0 (Oireachtas Open Data PSI Licence)
Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under the Oireachtas (Houses of the Oireachtas) Open Data PSI Licence / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, sourced from https://www.irishstatutebook.ie.