The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made: 5th March 1990

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1990

Coming into force: 1st April 1990

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

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on1st April 1990.

2

The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) Regulations 1984[^f00005] shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in Schedules 3 and 4—

• (i) for “22” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “24”, and

• (ii) for “66” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “71”[^f00006]; and

• (b) in Schedule 5[^f00007]—

• (i) for “33” there shall be substituted “35.50”,

• (ii) for “16.50” there shall be substituted “17.75”, and

• (iii) for “17.75” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “19”.

Signed

Home Office

David Waddington — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 2nd March 1990

We consent to these Regulations.

John Taylor — Stephen Dorrell — Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 5th March 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations raise the amount of the basic fee for television licences from £22 to £24 in the case of monochrome and from £66 to £71 in the case of colour. In the case of instalment licences the issue fee for the Standard Instalment Licence is increased from £33 to £35.50 with instalment fees raised from £16.50 to £17.75. For the Premium Instalment Licence the issue and instalment fees of £17.75 are both increased to £19.

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. 1984/1053.

[^f00006]: 22 and 66 are as substituted by S.I. 1989/325.

[^f00007]: Schedule 5 was inserted by S.I. 1989/96, and 33, 16.50 and 17.75 are as substituted by S.I. 1989/325.