{"id":"C1906A00010","name":"Tasmanian Cable Rates Act 1906","slug":"tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"10 of 1906","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":18459,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1906A00010-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Tasmanian Cable Rates Act 1906","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nTASMANIAN CABLE RATES.\n\n \n\nNo. 10 of 1906.\n\nAn Act to amend the Post and Telegraph Rates Act 1902.\n\n[Assented to 28th September, 1906.]\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 and commencement.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Tasmanian Cable Rates Act 1906 and shall commence on the first day of October One thousand nine hundred and six.\n\nOmission of Tasmanian cable charges.\n\n2. The Second Schedule to the Post and Telegraph Rates Act 1902 is amended by omitting therefrom wherever they occur the words “on telegrams from and to Tasmania the charges to be those mentioned above with cable charges added.”\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1232},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains its original narrow scope of removing cable charges for Tasmanian telegrams. No expansion beyond this specific technical amendment."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 sections total (short title and single amendment)","Single, straightforward deletion of text from another Act","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural steps","Extremely brief (approximately 150 words)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What it does:** This Act removes extra fees (called \"cable charges\") for telegrams sent to or from Tasmania.\n\n**Why it matters:** Before this law, people paid higher rates to send telegrams to Tasmania compared to other Australian states because the messages travelled via undersea cables. This Act makes the cost of sending telegrams to Tasmania the same as sending them between mainland states.\n\n**How it works:** It deletes specific words from the *Post and Telegraph Rates Act 1902* that previously required cable charges to be added to the cost of Tasmanian telegrams."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906","history":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tasmanian-cable-rates-act-1906/documents"}}