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Insulation resistance.

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19. The insulation resistance of the Company's appará- tus shall not fall below the following requirements as between conductors or between conductors and earth.

Main Underground Cables Cast iron distribution boxes fitted with yacu- um discharges and glass fuses

Lead sheathed leading-in

cable

Coil windings and wires of

the telephone set Subscribers circuits

Exchange

circuits

500 megohms per mile.

10 megohms.

100 megohms per mile.

10 megohms.

-

- 200,000 ohms.

switchboard

2 megohms.

Pressure on circuits and

apparatus to be limited.

Crossed services of

others to be protected.

I'rovisions as

The Governor in Council may, however, by Order, pub- lished in the Gazette, direct that any of the provisions of this section be relaxed in any particular instances to such extent and subject to such conditions (if any) as he may think reasonable and proper under all the circumstances.

20. All circuits and apparatus shall be so arranged that there shall be no danger of any part thereof becoming accidentally charged to any pressure beyond the limits of pressure for which it is intended.

21. Whenever the Company leads a telephone or acrial line across or in proximity to any telephone or telegraphi wire or aerial line belonging to any person, the Company shall ensure that its telephone or aerial line is so protected as to guard against the possibility of it coming into contact with the telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line of any such persou.

22. After the Company has opened or broken up any to completion public street it shall be under the following further protection of obligations

and

works in

public streets and payment of costs of surfacing.

Restriction

on Company interfering with

works of others.

(a) It shall, with all convenient speed, complete the work on account of which it has opened or broken up the same, and fill in the ground and remove all rubbish occasioned by its work :

(b) The surface of such street shall be made good by the Director and the Company shall pay on demand to the Treasurer such sum as the Director may certify to be the cost of such making good : (e) It shall in the meantime cause the place where such street is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched and to be properly lighted at night : (d) It shall pay to the Treasurer any such sum as may be certified by the Director to be the reason- able cost of keeping such portion of the street in repair for six months after the same is restored so far as such cost may be applicable to and increased by such opening or breaking up.

Provided always that, if the Company shall fail, within such period as the Director shall consider reasonable under the circumstances, to complete the work on account where- of it shall have opened or broken up such street and to fill in the ground, it shall be lawful for the Director, forthwith and without notice to the Company, to fill in the ground and remove all rubbish, and the cost as certified by the Director of any work executed by the Director under the terms of this proviso shall be paid by the Company on demand to the Treasurer.

23. When the Company shall open or break up any street it shall not remove, displace or interfere with any gas or water pipe or main or any drain or sewer or any tube, casing, wire or cable for the carriage of electrical current except with the previous consent of the owner thereof.