Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 3831

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Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) 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 (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983.

Dated 23 November 1992.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER COOK

Minister of State for Shipping and Aviation Support for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Transport and Communications

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1. Commencement

1.1 These Regulations commence on 1 December 1992.

 

2. Amendment

2.1 The Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3. Regulation 3a (Amount of tax on public mobile telcommunications service licence)

3.1 Paragraphs 3a (2) (a) and 3a (2) (b):

Omit “$700,000.00” (wherever occurring), substitute “$708,400.00”.

3.2 Subregulation 3a (2b):

Omit “$700,000.00”, substitute “$708,400.00”.

4. Regulation 4 (Tax in respect of grant of transmitter licence— certain fixed amounts)

4.1 Subregulation 4(1):

Omit the table, substitute:

“

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item No	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	Amount per annum of tax Class C1 (other than low density location)	Amount per annum of tax Class C1 (low density location)
$	$
1	Not exceeding 36	334	171
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200	412	206
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500	800	400
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000	1,490	740

”

 

4.2 Subregulation 4 (2):

Omit the table, substitute:

“

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item No	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	Amount per annum of tax Class C2 (other than low density location)	Amount per annum of tax Class C2 (low density location)
$	$
1	Not exceeding 36	55	27
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200	69	34
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500	83	41
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000	111	56
5	Exceeding 2,000 but not exceeding 7,000	163	83
6	Exceeding 7,000 but not exceeding 14,000	334	171
7	Exceeding 14,000 but not exceeding 28,000	552	278
8	Exceeding 28,000	968	485

”

5. Schedule (Tax on grant of transmitter licence)

5.1 Omit the Schedule, substitute:

 

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

TAX ON GRANT OF TRANSMITTER LICENCE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
1	Aeronautical station	100
2	Aircraft station, Class A	243
3	Aircraft station, Class B	45
4	Amateur station (unrestricted)	35
5	Amateur station (limited)	35
6	Amateur station (novice)	35
7	Amateur station (combined limited and novice)	35
7a	Ambulatory service (low frequency)	146 + 48 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
8	Ambulatory service (extra high density location)	714 + 48 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
9	Ambulatory service (very high density/high density location)	569 + 48 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
10	Ambulatory service (low density location)	273 + 48 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
11	AUSSAT service	188,946
12	Australian satellite service	188.95 per MHz bandwidth for each orbital position

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
13	Base station, Class I	146
14	Base station, Class II (extra high density location)	714 for each transmitting frequency
15	Base station, Class II (very high density/high density location)	569 for each transmitting frequency
16	Base station, Class II (low density location)	273 for each transmitting frequency
17	Base station, Class III	117 for each transmitting frequency
17a	Broadcasting service transmitter (broadcasting services bands)	20
17b	Broadcasting service transmitter (national broadcasting services)	20
17c	Broadcasting service transmitter (re-transmission)	20
17d	Broadcasting service transmitter (temporary)	20
17e	Broadcasting service transmitter (testing)	20
18	Citizen band radio station	18 per transmitter
19	Coast station, Class A	1,140
20	Coast station, Class B	21,916
20a	Cordless telephone system service	209
21	Disaster station	37

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
22	Earth station, Australian satellite service	224+ 7,561 X T, where T equals the number of transponders, accessed by that earth station, where: (a) those transponders or fractions are not accessed by any other earth station that includes a transmitter in respect of which the licensee to whose licence that first-mentioned earth station relates is the licencee; and (b) each transponder so accessed, including any transponder in relation to which a fraction is accessed, has a bandwidth not exceeding 45 MHz.
23	Earth station, Class A	424
24	Earth station, Class B	2,206
25	Earth station, Class C	11,134
26	Earth station, Class D	22,171
27	Earth station, Class E	103,838
28	Experimental station	90
29	Exterior paging service (other than low density location	2,787
30	Exterior paging service (low density location	1,321
31	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, other than low density location)	728

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
32	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, low density location)	327
32a	Exterior paging service (weather information)	104
33	Fixed station, Class A (business)	176 for each transmitting frequency
34	Fixed station, Class A (private)	62 for each transmitting frequency
35	Fixed station, Class B (other than low density location)	111 for each transmission path
36	Fixed station, Class B (low density location)	87 for each transmission path
37	Fixed station, Class C1 (other than low density location)	Subject to subregulation 4(3), for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with subregulation 4(1) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that subregulation
38	Fixed station, Class C1 (low density location)	Subject to subregulation 4(3), for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with subregulation 4(1) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that subregulation

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
39	Fixed station, Class C2 (other than low density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with subregulation 4(2) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that subregulation
40	Fixed station, Class C2 (low density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with subregulation 4(2) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that subregulation
41	Fixed station, Class D1 (other than low density location)	219 for each transmission path
42	Fixed station, Class D1 (low density location)	111 for each transmission path
43	Fixed station, Class D2 (other than low density location)	436 for each transmission path
44	Fixed station, Class D2 (low density location)	219 for each transmission path
45	Fixed station, Class E1 (other than low density location)	111 for each transmission path
46	Fixed station, Class E1 (low density location)	56 for each transmission path
47	Fixed station, Class E2 (other than low density location)	219 for each transmission path
48	Fixed station, Class E2 (low density location)	111 for each transmission path
49	General Station, Class A	28
50	General Station, Class B	141
51	General Station, Class C	369
52	General Station, Class D	740

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
53	General Station, Class E	1,466
54	Handphone station	18 per transmitter
55	Interior paging service	151 per transmitter
56	Internal television service	151 per transmitter
57	Land mobile system service (very high density location)	3,089
58	Land mobile system service (very high density location)	2,944
59	Land mobile system service (special)	2,944
60	Land mobile system service (supplementary transmitter)	128
60a	Land station (data communications)	48
61	Limited coast station	64
62	Marine rescue station	18
63	Mobile (disaster plan) station	62
64	Mobile outpost station	18
65	Mobile station	48
66	Multipoint distribution station, Class A	11,674
66a	Multipoint distribution station, Class B	23,334
67	Multipoint distribution repeater station	65
68	Narrowband area station, Class A	2,956 per 25 KHz of bandwidth
69	Narrowband area station, Class B	309 per 175 KHz of bandwidth
70	Outpost station	18
71	Outside broadcast station	1,236
72	Radiodetermination station (highpower)	181
73	Radiodetermination station (lowpower)	44
74	Remote control station	48

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
75	Repeater station	35
76	Repeater station (passive)	206
77	Ship station, Class A	33
78	Ship station, Class B	45
79	Ship station, Class C	375
80	Telemetry service (other than low density location)	1,564
81	Telemetry service (low density location)”	788

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 November 1992.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 Nos. 197 as amended by 1985 No. 225; 1986 Nos. 129, 200 and 281; 1987 Nos. 58 and 273; 1988 Nos. 220 and 307; 1989 Nos. 194, 315 and 320; 1990 No. 359; 1991 Nos. 347, 362 and 385; 1992 Nos. 196 and 308.