{"id":"C1911A00009","name":"Purchase Telephone Lines Acquisition Act 1911","slug":"purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"9 of 1911","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":18622,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1911A00009-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Purchase Telephone Lines Acquisition Act 1911","content":"PURCHASE TELEPHONE LINES ACQUISITION.\n\nNo. 9 of 1911.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Acquisition of Purchase Telephone Lines.\n\n\\[Assented to 12th December, 1911.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Purchase Telephone Lines Acquisition Act 1911.\n\nResumption of purchase telephone lines after notice.\n\n2.—(1.) The Postmaster-General may, after giving three months’ notice to the owner, acquire any purchase telephone line which was erected by the Department of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones of any State at the expense of the owner or his predecessor in title or constructed prior to the year 1883 by the owner or his predecessor in title, and in respect of which the owner pays an annual maintenance fee.\n\n(2.) On the expiration of the time specified in sub-section (1.) of this section, the purchase telephone line specified in the notice shall become the property of the Commonwealth and vest in the Postmaster-General.\n\n(3.) The compensation, if the amount cannot be agreed upon, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the laws relating to arbitration of the State in which the line is situated.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1967},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains precisely limited to its original purpose of providing a mechanism for the Commonwealth to acquire specific categories of telephone lines from private owners."},"complexity_factors":["Minimal length (only 3 operative sections)","No defined terms section or statutory definitions","Linear procedural structure with clear sequential steps","Single contingent provision (arbitration only triggered if agreement cannot be reached)","Reference to external state arbitration laws without specifying procedural details"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act lets the Commonwealth acquire certain privately financed telephone lines—those built by state Post & Telegraph departments (but paid for by the owner) or constructed by owners before 1883—where the owner still pays an annual maintenance fee. The Postmaster‑General must give three months’ written notice, after which the line vests in the Commonwealth and the owner is paid; unresolved compensation is set by arbitration.\n\nIt enabled federal consolidation of fragmented early telephone networks into a unified national system."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911","history":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911/history","analysis":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/purchase-telephone-lines-acquisition-act-1911/documents"}}