Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997No. 158 1

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Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983.

Dated 25 June 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[Note: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   New regulation 4B

2.1   After regulation 4A, insert:

Withdrawal of AMPS spectrum (Melbourne and Sydney)

 “4B. A refund of $828,774 is payable to Telstra Corporation Limited (‘Telstra’) for the withdrawal, on and from 1 January 1997, of 3 megahertz (MHz) in the 880 MHz to 890 MHz band in the Sydney and Melbourne regions from the Public Mobile Telecommunications Service Class A licence held by Telstra until 19 May 1997.

[NOTE: The amount of $828,774 is derived from the formula:

 

$362,713 ´ 3 ´ 2 ´ (139 ÷ 365) = $828,774.36 (rounded to $828,774)

 

where:

• $362,713

  is the annual amount of tax per MHz per city paid by Telstra for the licence;

• 3

  is the number of MHz withdrawn;

• 2

  is the number of cities where the spectrum was in use;

• 139

  is the number of days’ use of the spectrum that Telstra had paid for, and lost because of the withdrawal.]”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1997.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 200 as amended by 1989 No. 355; 1991 No. 361; 1992 No. 388; 1993 No. 178; 1995 Nos. 36, 63 and 130.