Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1977 (Cth)

BROADCASTING STATIONS LICENCE FEES AMENDMENT ACT 1977

No. 94 of 1977

An Act to amend section 6 of the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Act 1964.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1977.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 September 1977.

Amount of fees

3. (1) Section 6 of the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Act 1964is amended by omitting sub-sections (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-sections:

“(1) There is payable on the grant of a licence, not being a grant by way of the renewal of a licence, a fee of $200.

“(2) There is payable on each anniversary of the date of commencement of a licence that occurs during the period of the licence, and on the grant of a licence that is by way of renewal of a licence, a fee of $200 together with—

(a) an amount equal to 1 per centum of such part of the gross earnings of the station to which the licence relates during the year ended on 30 June last preceding that anniversary or last preceding the commencement of the period for which the licence is renewed, as the case may be, as does not exceed $500,000;

(b) an amount equal to 1½per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $500,000 but does not exceed $1,000,000;

(c) an amount equal to 2 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $1,000,000 but does not exceed $1,500,000;

(d) an amount equal to 2½per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $1,500,000 but does not exceed $2,000,000;

(e) an amount equal to 3 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $2,000,000 but does not exceed $2,500,000;

(f) an amount equal to 3½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $2,500,000 but does not exceed $3,000,000;

(g) an amount equal to 4 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $3,000,000 but does not exceed $3,500,000;

(h) an amount equal to 4½per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $3,500,000 but does not exceed $4,000,000;

(j) an amount equal to 5 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $4,000,000 but does not exceed $4,500,000;

(k) an amount equal to 5½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $4,500,000 but does not exceed $5,000,000; and

(l) an amount equal to 6 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $5,000,000.”.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have applied, or applies, as the case may be, in relation to—

(a) every grant of a licence that was or is to commence on or after the date of commencement of this Act; and

(b) every anniversary of the date of commencement of a licence, being an anniversary that occurred or occurs on or after the date of commencement of this Act.