Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 1461

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Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, 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 25 August 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. DUFFY

Minister of State for Communications

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 September 1983.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Radiocommunications Licence Fees Regulations.

Licence Fees

3. Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “$15” (wherever occurring) and substituting “$30”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (7) “10 per cent” and substituting “15 per cent”.

 

Fees in respect of fixed stations, Class C

4. Regulation 3A of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) 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	1-36 (inclusive)........................................	130	..
2	37-400 (inclusive)....................................	250	200
3	401-2 800 (inclusive)...............................	660	510
4	2 801-10 000 (inclusive)..........................	950	760

(b) 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	10 001-20 000 (inclusive)........................	1,650	1,320
2	20 001-40 000 (inclusive)........................	2,550	2,040
3	40 001-80 000 (inclusive)........................	4,450	3,500
4	80 001-160 000 (inclusive)......................	7,040	5,600
5	greater than 160 000................................	9,500	7,600

Schedule

5. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of licences	Rate per year of fees
$
1	Aeronautical station, private...................	45
2	Aeronautical station, not included in item 1	60
3	Aircraft station installed on an aircraft— (a) having 38 or more passenger seats; or (b) having a maximum take-off weight of 19 tonnes or more	130
4	Aircraft station, not included in item 3....	35
5	Amateur station......................................	19
6	Base station, not included in item 7 or 8	150	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	Base station, low duty cycle speech........	64	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of licences	Rate per year of fees
$
8	Base station, telemetry or telecommand or both	64	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
9	Citizen ban radio station.............................	11
10	Coast station, Class A................................	640
11	Coast station, Class B................................	12,700
12	Developmental station...............................	250	per channel per location
13	Disaster station.........................................	25
14	Earth homestead station.............................	70
15	Earth station, Class A.................................	250
16	Earth station, Class B.................................	1,300
17	Earth station, Class C.................................	6,400
18	Earth station, Class D.................................	12,700
19	Earth station, Class E.................................	59,700
20	Experimental station..................................	50
21	Exterior paging service, Class A.................	640
22	Exterior paging service, Class B..................	1300
23	Exterior paging service, Class C..................	350
24	Fixed outpost station..................................	10
25	Fixed receiving station, not included in item 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 48 or 49	18
26	Fixed station, Class A, private....................	50	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
27	Fixed station, Class A, not included in item 26	205	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
28	Fixed station, Class B, telemetry or telecommand or both, in a high density location	66
29	Fixed station, Class B, telemetry or telecommand or both, in a low density location	50
30	Fixed station, Class B, low duty cycle speech, in a high density location	66
31	Fixed station, Class B, low duty cycle speech, in a low density location	50
32	Fixed station, Class C................................	105	or the rate ascertained in accordance with regulation 3ahaving regard to the bandwidths referred to in that regulation, whichever is the greater
33	General, Class A.......................................	15
34	General, Class B........................................	100
35	General, Class C........................................	250
36	General, Class D.......................................	500
37	General, Class E........................................	1,000
38	Handphone station.....................................	11
39	Interior paging service	80	per transmitter
40	Land mobile paging receiver station, not being a station that is part of an exterior paging service	18
41	Limited coast station, private......................	40
42	Limited coast station, not included in item 41	60
43	Marine rescue station.................................	10
44	Mobile outpost station...............................	10
45	Mobile station, not included in item 44........	35
46	Multipoint distribution station, Class A........	240
47	Multipoint distribution station, Class B........	6,350
48	Multipoint distribution station receiver, Class A	200

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of licences	Rate per year of fees
$
49	Multipoint distribution station receiver, Class B	20
50	Network licence.........................	3,449,000
51	Outside broadcast television station	200
52	Radiodetermination station	100
53	Repeater station—
(a) for use with citizen band radio stations	25
(b) for use with amateur stations	25
54	Remote control station, Class A...	250
55	Remote control station, Class B...	270
56	Ship station, Class A...................	20
57	Ship station, Class B, private.......	26
58	Ship station, Class B, not included in item 57	35
59	Ship station, Class C...................	215
60	Trunked land mobile service.......	1,300	per base transmitter active frequency

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 269 as amended by 1982 No. 293.