The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1989

Made: 3rd March 1989

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1989

Coming into force: 1st April 1989

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 No. 2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

• (2) The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1988[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

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The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) Regulations 1984[^f00006] shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in regulation 6, for “£1.50” there shall be substituted “£2”;

• (b) in Schedule 3 –

• (i) for “£21” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£22”,

• (ii) for “£62.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£66”[^f00007], and

• (iii) for “£1.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£2.50”;

• (c) in Schedule 4 –

• (i) for “£21” there shall be substituted “£22”, and

• (ii) for “£62.50” there shall be substituted “£66”[^f00007]; and

• (d) in Schedule 5[^f00008] –

• (i) for “£31.24” there shall be substituted “£33.00”,

• (ii) for “£15.62” there shall be substituted “£16.50”, and

• (iii) for “£16.87” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£17.75”.

Signed

Douglas Hurd — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 2nd March

We consent to these Regulations.

Kenneth Carlisle — Alan Howarth — Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 3rd March 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations raise the amount of the basic fee for television licences from £21 to £22 in the case of monochrome and from £62.50 to £66 in the case of colour. They also increase the fees for other types of television licence. The fee for a duplicate licence is raised from £1.50 to £2 and that for the dealer demonstration licence from £1.50 to £2.50. In the case of instalment licences the issue fee for the Standard Instalment Licence is increased from £31.24 to £33 with instalment fees raised from £15.62 to £16.50. For the Premium Instalment Licence the issue and instalment fees of £16.87 are both increased to £17.75.

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. 1988/376.

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

[^f00007]: £21 and £62.50 are as substituted by S.I. 1988/376.

[^f00008]: Schedule 5 was inserted by S.I. 1989/96.