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No. 9 of 1925.
TELEPHONE.
TELEPHONE.
No. 9 of 1925.
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Lines to be provided on request.
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Connexion
of company's telephone system with wireless telephone
system.
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Rates of
subscrip- tion: matters covered by subscrip- tion.
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Schedule.
Removal of lines and instruments
on change of address.
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furnished from time to time by the company with all such fittings and apparatus as may be necessary for the requirements of the area concerned.
33. The company shall, within a reasonable time after the receipt of a request in writing in that behalf from any person, and upon the payment in advance, if demanded, of the com- pany's usual charges and of any other moneys due under this Ordinance from such person to the company, and the signature, if required, of the company's usual form of agreement for an exchange line, instal a telephone in such building within the Colony as the requesting party may require, and shall connect the same with the nearest exchange and accord to the requesting person a good and continuous telephone service for so long as that person continues to pay the company's usual charges on the due date.
34. Whenever any system of wireless telephony is estab- lished in the Colony the company shall, if so requested by the Government, permit its system of telephony to be connected therewith on such terms as the Governor in Council, after dis- cussion with the company, considers reasonable.
35. The company shall be entitled to charge its subscribers rates of subscription which shall not exceed those specified in the Schedule or such revised rates as are hereinafter provided for. Such subscription shall include the cost of erection and fitting up of the lines and the installation of all necessary receivers, transmitters, switches or other appliances and the con- nexion thereof with the nearest exchange and also all necessary repairs and renewals requisite for the maintenance of an efficient and continuous service, with the exception of damage not occasioned by fair wear and tear to telephonic apparatus inside a subscriber's premises.
36. In the event of any subscriber having changed or being about to change his address and requiring his telephone or line to be removed from one place, office or address to another or requiring the installation of a line and apparatus of a similar type at his new address then upon his notifying the company of
• As amended by No. 9 of 1930 [15.8.301.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
such his desire and upon payment of the charges in respect thereof set out in the Schedule the company shall, subject to Schedule. the provisions of section 33, carry out such removal or instal- lation as aforesaid. In addition to the charges mentioned in this section and the rates of subscription mentioned in section 35 the company shall be entitled to charge its subscribers in respect of other services mentioned in the Schedule such charges as are therein set out.
37. No subscriber shall be entitled to make trunk calls from Making of, his telephone unless he has first notified the company in writing and charges
and security of such his desire and unless he has deposited and kept deposited for, trunk such sum not exceeding twenty dollars as the company may calls. demand of him as security for charges in respect of such trunk + calls.
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38. (1) For the purposes of section 39, the net profits of Computation the company shall be the gross takings of the company, includ- of net
profits. ing the takings in respect of trunk line services, less the moneys appropriated for the following purposes, namely—
(i) interest on moneys borrowed by the company, includ-
ing interest on debentures;
(ii) the sums payable yearly to the Accountant-General in
accordance with section 7;
(iii) working costs;
(iv) reasonable management expenses;
(v) superannuation and provident funds;
(vi) maintenance and removal of works, apparatus and
other property of the company;
(vii) depreciation of buildings, plant, apparatus and other
property of the company, and
(viii) the appropriation of authorized sums to reserve.
(2) The amount to be written off or provided annually for depreciation shall not exceed ten per cent, of the cost of the company's plant and equipment other than land and buildings. The depreciation on land and buildings shall be such a sum or
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As amended by No. 9 of 1930 [15.8.30].
§ As amended by No. 27 of 1933 [1.1.34].
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched,
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