Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1983 (Cth)

Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1983

No. 58 of 1983

  

An Act to amend the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Act 1964, and for related purposes

[Assented to 12 October 1983]

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

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1983.

(2) The Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees Act 19641is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 September 1983.

Amount of fees

3. (1) Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (2a) (C) “or”; and

 

(b) by omitting paragraph (2a) (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(d) where those gross earnings are not less than $7,000,000 but are less than $10,000,000—the percentage ascertained in accordance with the formula—

; or

“(e) where those gross earnings are not less than $10,000,000— whichever is the lesser of 5.5% or the percentage ascertained in accordance with the formula—

,”.

(2) The amendments made by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have applied or apply, as the case may be, in relation to each anniversary of the date of commencement of a licence, being an anniversary that occurred or occurs, as the case may be, on or after 1 September 1983.

  

NOTE

1. No. 119, 1964, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; No. 148, 1973; No. 188, 1976; No. 94, 1977; No. 50, 1978; Nos. 114 and 168, 1981; and No. 155, 1982.