The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made: 29th February 1988

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1988

Coming into force: 1st April 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949[^f00001], as enacted, and as extended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Channel Islands) Order 1952[^f00002] and the Wireless Telegraphy (Isle of Man) Order 1952[^f00003], and now vested in me[^f00004], I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, make the following Regulations:

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

• (2) The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1985[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

2

Schedules 3 and 4 to the Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) Regulations 1984[^f00006] shall be amended as follows—

• (a) for “£18” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£21”; and

• (b) for “£58” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£62.50”[^f00007].

Signed

Douglas Hurd — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 26th February 1988

We consent to these Regulations.

Mark Lennox-Boyd — Michael Neubert — Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 29th February 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations raise the amount of the basic fee for television licences from £18 to £21 in the case of monochrome and from £58 to £62.50 in the case of colour.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1949 c. 54.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1952/1900.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1952/1899.

[^f00004]: 1969 c. 48; S.I. 1969/1369, 1371, 1974/691.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1985/490.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1984/1053.

[^f00007]: £18 and £58 are as substituted by S.I. 1985/490.