- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 1 January 2021

[TEL 12,555] Telegram credit cards85

(1) The Permanent Secretary or any person authorised by him or her may, in his or her discretion, on the application of any telephone subscriber and on payment of the prescribed charges, issue such subscriber with a telegram credit card authorising such subscriber to send telegrams by telephoning the contents thereof to the nearest telegraph office from any telephone in Fiji, including a public telephone, or to lodge telegrams at any post office or telegraph office in Fiji and to have the charges debited to such telephone account as is specified in such telegram credit card.

(2) Where the Permanent Secretary has entered into an arrangement with the administration of another country—

(a)the telegram credit card issued to the telephone subscriber in Fiji may, subject to any conditions which may be notified to the subscriber to whom the card has been issued, be used to authorise the transfer of charges for telegrams sent from any telegraph office in the said country as in subregulation (1);
(b)a person to whom a telegram credit card has been issued by the administration of the said country may subject to any conditions notified to him or her, send telegrams from any telephone, including a public telephone, post office or telegraph office in Fiji and have the charges debited as provided for on his or her telegram credit card.

[reg 85 subst LN 48 of 1972 reg 9, effective 30 June 1972]