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(2) If any subscriber violates this regulation, or if any telephone connection is obtained by the violation of this regulation, the Minister may require the telephone service in respect of which the offence is committed to be forfeited, and may disconnect the premises from the telephone exchange with which such premises are connected, and may remove any telephone instruments and apparatus therefrom.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the transfer of a telephone service to a new or existing subscriber, with the consent of the Department, upon or in connection with a bona fide change in the occupancy of the premises in which the service is installed.

55A. No subscriber shall have any right to or interest in any particular number, and the Secretary may alter or change any number at his discretion.

Hours of Attendance at Telephone Exchanges.

56. The number of hours during which telephone service shall be ordinarily available to subscribers at the various exchanges shall be determined on the basis of the number of paying subscribers’ main stations connected with the exchange.

Basis of Attendance.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations does not exceed 50
The period of attendance shall not exceed eight hours per week-day—usually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 50 and does not exceed 100
The period of attendance shall not exceed fourteen hours per week-day—usually from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 100 and does not exceed 200
The period of attendance shall not exceed eighteen hours per week-day (usually from 6 a.m. to midnight), and two hours on Sundays and holidays.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 200 and does not exceed 1,000
The period of attendance shall be continuous—i.e., all day and all night: Provided that not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and not less than two-thirds of the residential subscribers express in writing to the Secretary their desire that the telephone-exchange attendance be so extended; such expression to be operative until reversed by an expression of the desire of not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and two-thirds of the residential subscribers that the period of attendance be reduced to eighteen hours per week-day and two hours on Sundays and holidays.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 1,000
The period of attendance shall be continuous—i.e., all day and all night.

Extra Attendance.

57. Any attendance in excess of that prescribed in the last preceding regulation shall be deemed extraordinary attendance, and shall be granted on the conditions, and on payment of the extra-attendance charges, specified hereunder:—

(1) That not less than three-fourths of the paying subscribers to an exchange express in writing to the Secretary their desire that the period of attendance be extended.

(2) That satisfactory arrangements can be made by the Department for the extended hours of attendance.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 50, and does not exceed 100—
An attendance not exceeding eighteen hours per week-day and a two-hour attendance on Sundays and holidays shall be granted upon payment of an extra-attendance rate of 1s. 8d. per month (or £1 per annum), in respect of each main station.

At exchanges at which the number of paying subscribers’ main stations exceeds 100 and does not exceed 200—
Continuous attendance shall be granted upon payment of an extra-attendance rate of 2s. 6d. per month (or £1 10s. per annum), in respect of each main station.

Telephone Directory Listings.

58. For each subscriber’s main station one free entry shall be published in the telephone directory. Such entry shall consist of the telephone number, the name of the subscriber (or his nominee), his business (if a business connection), and the address. One line only shall be given free of charge for each entry. In cases in which the title of the firm is sufficiently descriptive any further description of the business is inserted only on payment of the fee prescribed for an extra entry.

59. An agent desiring the insertion of the name of the firm or firms he represents must furnish satisfactory evidence that he is a bona fide agent of such firm or firms.

60. The charge for the insertion of any entry in excess of the free entry permitted under Regulation 58 shall be 5s. per line for each issue of the directory. Such charge shall be payable from the date on which the entry first appears in the directory.

61. On payment of the fee prescribed, the following extra entries may be inserted in a telephone directory:—

(a) The title of each firm when a firm or corporation carries on business under two distinctive titles and the same officials control both businesses.

(b) The designation of both firms when a firm or corporation takes over the business of another firm or corporation: provided that the written consent of the firm or corporation taken over is submitted.

(c) The names of the partners in a partnership firm.

(d) The names of departments, officials, or the names and residence numbers of its officials, of a firm or corporation. In such cases the extra entries may be inserted under the firm’s main entry.