Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 2221

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Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Radiocommunications Licence Fees Act 1982.

Dated 30 August 1984.

J. A. ROWLAND

Deputy of the Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

STEWART WEST

Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Communications

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 September 1984.

Fees in respect of fixed stations, Class C

2. Regulation 3A of the Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “a licence included in the class of licences referred to in Item 32 in the Schedule” and substituting “a fixed station, Class C, licence”;

(b) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following table:

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	High density location	Low density location
$	$
1	Not exceeding 36........................................	140	115
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 400..........	270	215
3	Exceeding 400 but not exceeding 2,800.....	710	550
4	Exceeding 2,800 but not exceeding 10,000	1,030	820

(c) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following table:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	High density location	Low density location
$	$
1	Exceeding 10,000 but not exceeding 20,000	1,780	1,430
2	Exceeding 20,000 but not exceeding 40,000	2,750	2,200
3	Exceeding 40,000 but not exceeding 80,000	4,810	3,780
4	Exceeding 80,000 but not exceeding 160,000	7,600	6,050
5	Exceeding 160,000......................................	10,200	8,200

Fees in respect of certain stations used in the operation of commercial television stations

3. Regulation 4 of the Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “relevant licence” and substituting the following definition:

“‘relevant licence’ means a licence, being a fixed receiving station licence or a fixed station, Class C, licence, that is granted or renewed during the prescribed period for a period not exceeding 12 months in duration;”;

(b) by omitting paragraph (3) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) in relation to the operation of which there are used—

(i) one or more fixed receiving stations; and

(ii) one or more fixed stations, Class C; and ” ; and

(c) by omitting paragraph (5) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) in relation to the operation of which there are used—

(i) one or more fixed receiving stations; and

(ii) one or more fixed stations, Class C; and”.

Schedule

4. The Schedule to the Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

 

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of licence	Rate per year of fee
$
1	Aeronautical station.............................	50
2	Aircraft station. Class A.......................	140
3	Aircraft station, Class B.......................	35
4	Amateur station...................................	21
5	Base station, Class A...........................	185	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
6	Base station, Class B............................	69	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
7	Citizen band radio station.....................	11
8	Coast station, Class A..........................	690
9	Coast station, Class B..........................	13,700
10	Developmental station.........................	270	per channel per location
11	Disaster station...................................	25
12	Earth homestead station.......................	75
13	Earth station, Class A...........................	270
14	Earth station. Class B...........................	1,400
15	Earth station, Class C...........................	6,880
16	Earth station, Class D...........................	13,700
17	Earth station. Class E...........................	64,200
18	Experimental station............................	54
19	Exterior paging service, Class A...........	690
20	Exterior paging service, Class B............	1,400
21	Exterior paging service, Class C............	380
22	Fixed outpost station............................	11
23	Fixed receiving station.........................	19
24	Fixed station, Class A (business)...........	220	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
25	Fixed station, Class A (private).............	54	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
26	Fixed station, Class B (high density location)	71
27	Fixed station. Class B (low density location)	54
28	Fixed station, Class C..........................	The rate ascertained in accordance with regulation 3ahaving regard to the bandwidths referred to in that regulation $
29	Fixed station. Class D1 (high density location)	500
30	Fixed station, Class D1 (low density location)	400
31	Fixed station, Class D2 (high density location)	600
32	Fixed station, Class D2 (low density location)	480
33	Fixed station, Class E1 (high density location)	200
34	Fixed station, Class E1 (low density location)	160
35	Fixed station, Class E2 (high density location)	250
36	Fixed station. Class E2 (low density location)	200
37	General station. Class A.......................	20
38	General station. Class B.......................	100
39	General station. Class C.......................	250

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of licence	Rate per year of fee
$
40	General station, Class D..........	500
41	General station, Class E...........	1,000
42	Handphone station..................	11
43	Interior paging service............	90	per transmitter
44	Internal television service........	90	per transmitter
45	Land mobile paging receiver station	19
46	Limited coast station...............	45
47	Marine rescue station..............	11
48	Mobile (disaster plan) station...	45
49	Mobile outpost station.............	11
50	Mobile station........................	35
51	Multipoint distribution station, Class A	260
52	Multipoint distribution station, Class B	6,860
53	Multipoint distribution repeater station	21
54	Multipoint distribution station receiver, Class A	215
55	Multipoint distribution station receiver, Class B	20
56	Network.................................	3,742,000
57	Outside broadcast television station	400
58	Radiodetermination station......	110
59	Repeater station......................	20
60	Remote control station, Class A	270
61	Remote control station, Class B	290
62	Ship station, Class A...............	22
63	Ship station, Class B...............	30
64	Ship station, Class C...............	230
65	Telemetry service...................	1,000
66	Trunked land mobile service....	1,400	per base transmitter active frequency

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 269 as amended by 1982 No. 293; 1983 No. 146.