The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made: 8th March 1994

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], the power conferred on him by article 8 of the Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) Order 1988[^f00003], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

2

In these Regulations, “the Principal Regulations” means the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1991[^f00004] as amended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1992[^f00005].

3

In regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations,

• (a) for the table in paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

• (b) before the word “Local” in lines 1 and 4 of paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the words “National and”; and

• (c) for the words “17th January 1992” in paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the words “25th February 1994”.

4

In regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations for the words “regulations 5, 6 and 8” in paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the words “regulations 5, 6, 8 and 9”.

5

The following shall be inserted as regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations:—

• In relation to a Band III Private Mobile Radio National Trunked Service Licence, a Band III Private Mobile Radio Regional Trunked Service Licence, a National Public Data Network Service Licence, a National Public Radiotelephone System Licence and a Personal Communications Network Licence, where any such licence has been issued to a licensee in respect of a station or stations and another licensee subsequently applies for a licence in respect of that station or those stations, as the case may be, that licensee shall assume the position of the previous licensee on the fee scale applicable thereto set out in the Schedule.

6

For the Schedule to the Principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2 — THE SCHEDULE

Signed

Patrick McLoughlin — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Trade and Industry — 1st March 1994

We consent to these Regulations,

Irvine Patnick — Andrew Mackay — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 8th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1991 (S. I.1991/542) as amended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S. I.1992/362) (“the Principal Regulations”), which provide for fees to be paid in relation to wireless telegraphy licences granted under section 1 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 (c. 54).

The Regulations change the level and structure of some of the fees prescribed for certain licence types to up-date those fees, by substituting for the Schedule to the Principal Regulations the Schedule to these Regulations (regulation 6). Fees are increased in respect of 12 licence types and reduced in respect of 1 licence type. Fees are now prescribed for 56 types of licence.

Some licence categories and 4 licence types have been renamed and the Amateur Radio Beacon and Repeater Licence has been withdrawn. Radio Microphone and Permanent Earth Station Licences have each been split into 3 classes. The classes of Independent Programme Maker’s Licence have been increased. The fees for Maritime Business Radio, National Public Radiotelephone Systems, Port Operations and Private Mobile Radio (Standard) have been restructured. Personal Communications Network, Private Mobile Radio Road Construction, Radar Gauges, Restricted Radio Services Transmission (Class B-Radiating Cable), Temporary Use and RF tagging are new types of licence. An existing licence type Band III Private Mobile Radio National Trunked Service has been reintroduced.

The Regulations amend the table set out in regulation 3(4) of the Principal Regulations by substituting for it the table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations (regulation 3).

The Regulations also update the list in regulation 3(6) of the Principal Regulations which is now entitled “Coverage of Independent National and Local Radio Stations”. This is referred to in connection with the fee prescribed for Transmission of National and Local Broadcasting Services Licences (regulation 3).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1949 c. 54; section 2 was extended to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, respectively, by S.I.1952/1900, amended by S.I.1967/1279, 1969/1396 and S.I.1952/1899; there are amendments to section 2 not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00002]: 1969 c. 48, section 3; S.I.1969/1369, article 3, 1371, article 2, and 1974/691, article 2.

[^f00003]: S.I.1988/93, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No.2) Act 1987 (c. 51).