S.I. No. 185/1988:

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1988

TELEPHONE (AMENDMENT) SCHEME, 1988

BORD TELECOM ÉIREANN, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 90 Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 , (No. 24 of 1983), hereby makes the following Scheme;

1. (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Telephone (Amendment) Scheme, 1988.

(2) The collective citation "the Telephone Schemes, 1980 to 1988" include this Scheme.

2. This Scheme shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 June 1988.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Scheme.

4. The Telephone Regulations, 1980 (S.I. 195 of 1980) are hereby amended by:

(a) the insertion of the following definitions therein after that of "Eircell Equipment" in Regulation 4 (1):

"'Eirpage Service" means the one way national wide-area radio paging service interconnected to the fixed telecommunications network of Bord Telecom Éireann;

"Eirpage Equipment" means pagers and other associated equipment to which Eirpage Service is supplied;'

(b) the substitution of the following new Regulation for Regulation 9

9 (1) In respect of every call made by a subscriber to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded by Bord Telecom Éireann as being adjacent to the telephone group of the subscriber making the call or to Eirpage Equipment there shall be charged to the subscriber and paid by him whichever of the changes specified in Paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to these Regulations is appropriate to the call.

(2) (a) In respect of every call made from a coin-box exchange line to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded by Bord Telecom Éireann as being adjacent to the telephone group of the coin-box exchange line from which the call is being made or to Eirpage Equipment there shall be placed in the coin-box the charge specified in paragraph 2 (a) of the First Schedule to these Regulations.

(b) In respect of every call made by a caller from a call office to a telephone in the same telephone group or to a telephone in another telephone group which is regarded by Bord Telecom Éireann as being adjacent to the telephone group of the call office from which the call is being made or to Eirpage Equipment there shall be charged to the caller and paid by him the charges specified in paragraph 2 (b) of the First Schedule to the Regulations.'

GIVEN under the common Seal of BORD TELECOM ÉIREANN this

20th day of July 1988 in the presence of:

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of this Scheme is to make provision for telephoen calls to Eirpage Equipment.