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No. 9.1
Insulation resistance.
Pressure on circuits and
apparatus to be limited.
Crossed services of others to be protected.
Provisions as
to complation
and
protection of work in public streets and payment of costs of
surfacing.
TELEPHONE.
[A.D. 1925.
19. The insulation resistance of the Company's appara- tus shall not fall below the following requirements as between conductors or between conductors and earth,
Main Underground Cable
Cast iron distribution boxes fitted with vacu- um discharges and glass fuses
Lead sheathed leading-in
cable
Coil windings and wires of
the telephone set
Subscribers circuits
Exchange circuits
switchboard
300 megohms per mile.
10 megohms.
100 megohms per mile.
10 megohms,
- 200,000 olims.
2 megolims.
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 on 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 aerial line across or in proximity to any telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line belonging to any person, the Company shall ensure that it telephone or aerial line is so protected as to guard against the possibility of it coming into contract with the telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line of any such person.
22. After the Company has opened or broken up any pn'lic street it shall be under the following further obligations
(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;
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(b) The surface of such street shall be made good by the Director and The Company shall pay ou 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, forth with 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 Tresaurer.
23. When the Company shall open or break up any Restriction street it shall not remove, displace or interfere with any on Company gas or water pipe or main or any drain or sewer or any
interfering tube, casing, wire or cable for the carriage of electrical with works
of others. current except with the previous consent of the owner thereof,
Provided that when any such owner refuses to give any such consent as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Com- pany to appeal from such refusal to the Director, who shall, if he considers such refusal to have been unreason- able, give a certificate under his hand to the Company to that effect, and, upon receipt of such certificate it shall be lawful for the Company to act in every respect as if the consent of such owner had been previously obtained.
24. The Company shall not have any claim in damages Company or otherwise against the Government in respect of any not to have disturbance or interruption of any part of the Company's claim against
Government undertaking lines or works occasioned by any works ou for disturb-
or excavation or disturbance of streets or lands which
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