TELEPHONE.
No. 9 of 1925.
1647
29. The company shall at its own cost and charges place underground where practicable its wires or cables passing across or along any street in the City of Victoria.
Wires in Victoria to be placed underground.
30. The company shall maintain and operate the public Improved telephone service in the Colony. The company shall also at all times during the continuance of the concession provide and maintain to the satisfaction of the Director a good, efficient and continuous service of public telephonic communication with modern appliances including all reasonable modern inventions. The company shall likewise provide buildings for its plant and offices, and shall keep in a good and sufficient state of repair all lines, cables, posts, attachments, plant and appliances necessary for the provision and maintenance of such service.
31.-(1) The company shall establish at its own cost and keep in proper condition such number of testing circuits as the Director may reasonably require for the purpose of testing the insulation resistance of the conductors, and shall supply and keep in proper condition all such instruments for testing as the Director may approve, and shall supply energy to every testing station for the purpose of testing.
(2) The company shall afford to the Director all facilities for inspection and testing of its works and for the reading, testing and inspection of its testing instruments, and may, on each occasion of the testing of its works or the reading, testing or inspection of any testing instruments, be represented by an agent who may be present but shall not interfere with the reading, testing or inspection.
(3) On the occasion of the testing of any works of the company by the Director reasonable previous notice in writing thereof shall be given to the company, and the testing shall be carried out at such suitable hours as in the opinion of the Director will least interfere with the telephone service and in such manner as the Director may think fit, but except under the provisions of a written order made in each case in that behalf by the Director no person shall be entitled to have access to or interfere with the works of the company at any points other than those at which the company itself has access to the same:
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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