Telephone Service (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 1996

L.N. 114 01 1996

TELEMAL T A CORPORATION ACf

(CAP. 250)

Telephone Service (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 1996

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Telemalta

Corporation Act, the Board, wi th the approval of the Minister for

Transport, Communications and Technology and with the concurrence

of the Minister of Finance, has made me follow ing regulations:-

I. (I) These regulations may becited as the Telephone Service

(Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 1996.and shall be read and construed

as one with the Telephone Service Regulations, 1972. hereinafter

referred to as " the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1st January. 1996.

( I ) Dawn ir-regolamenti jislghu jissejhu r- Regolamenli la' TnoI" u bidu

1- 1996lijemendaw ir-Rego lamenti dwar is-Servizz tal-Te lefon (Emenda r,,·Khh.

Nru . 4), u ghandhomjinqraw ujiftiehmu haga wahda mar-Rego lamenti ,U . 47

ta' 1- 1972 dwar is-Servizz tat-T elefon, hawnhekk iijed ' il quddiem Ia· I· lm.

imsejha "ir-regolamenti prinCipal i".

(2) Dawn ir-regolamen li ghandhom jitqiesu 1i bdew isehhu

fl- J ta ' Jan nar, 1996.

For the word "quarterly". wherever it occurs. in paragraph (1)

and in the marg inal note o f regulation 38 of the pri ncip~l regulations .

there shall be substituted the words " bi-monthly".

For the proviso to item 3 of the Fourth Schedule to the principal

regu lations. there shall be substituted the following

"Provided that . in the case of an exchange line c harged the

residence rate of rental, there shall be applied a rebate o f Lm5

over the global c all c harges inclu sive of Value Added T ax

registered d uring each bi-monthl y billing cycle . However. should

the g lobal call charges inclusive o f Value Added Tax registered

during any bi-monthly billing cycle amount to a value being less

than LmS , the rebate to be applied for that billing cycle shall be

limited to an amount eq ual to the global call charges inclusive of

Value Added Tax registered during such hi-monthly billing cycle.".

For the purposes of the Value Added Tax Act, 1994, the

charges specified in these regulations shall not be deemed to be inclusive

of value added tax. payable under the said Act. Value added tax shall be

bil led over and above the said charges . as applicable.

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