STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 402 of 1981.

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1981.

S.I. No. 402 of 1981.

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1981.

I, PATRICK COONEY, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, hereby make the following regulations:

1.(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Telephone (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1981.

(2) The collective citation “the Telephone Regulations, 1980 and 1981”, shall include these Regulations.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st December 1981.

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

4. The Telephone Regulations, 1980 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1980 ), are hereby amended by the substitution of th following regulation for Regulation 40.

“40. (1) Any notice which may be given by the Minister under an agreement or these Regulations shall be deemed to have been duly given to a subscriber if

(a) the notice is left at the subscriber's premises or is sent to him by ordinary post at the address specified as his in the agreement, or

(b) the notice is addressed to subscribers generally and is published in the Iris Oifigiúil and also in each of the morning daily newspapers published in the State.

(2) Any account which may be rendered by the Minister under an agreement or these Regulations shall be deemed to have been duly rendered to a subscriber if a copy of the account is left at the subscriber's premises or is sent to him by ordinary post at the address specified as his in the agreement.”

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for the abolition of the obligation to notify subscribers individually by post of revisions in telephone charges, and to provide in lieu for notification by newspaper advertisement.