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

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 3201

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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, hereby make the following Regulations under the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983.

Dated 29 November 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH WILLIS

Minister of State for Transport and Communications

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Commencement

1. These Regulations commence on 1 December 1989.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Regulations.

Interpretation

3. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting before paragraph (a) in the definition of “service” in subregulation (1) the following paragraph:

“(aa) ambulatory service (low frequency);”.

Tax in respect of grant of transmitter licence—certain fixed amounts

4. Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting the table at the foot of subregulation (1) and substituting the following table:

“

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........................................	296	151
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200..........	366	183
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500........	710	355
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000.....	1322	656
”;

 (b) by omitting the table at the foot of subregulation (2) and substituting the following table:

“

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.......................................	48	24
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200.........	61	31
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500.......	73	37
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000....	98	49
5	Exceeding 2,000 but not exceeding 7,000.	145	73
6	Exceeding 7,000 but not exceeding 14,000	296	151
7	Exceeding 14,000 but not exceeding 28,000	489	247
8	Exceeding 28,000......................................	860	430
”;

(c) by omitting from subregulation (3) “of a kind referred to in this regulation” and substituting “, Class CI (other than low density location) or a fixed station, Class CI (low density location)”.

Schedule

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 The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULERegulation 3

TAX ON GRANT OF TRANSMITTER LICENCE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
1	Aeronautical station.............................................	89
2	Aircraft station, Class A.......................................	215
3	Aircraft station, Class B........................................	40
4	Amateur station (unrestricted)..............................	32
5	Amateur station (limited)......................................	32
6	Amateur station (novice)......................................	32
7	Amateur station (combined limited and novice)....	32
7a	Ambulatory service (low frequency)....................	129 + $42 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)..	634 + $42 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)	505 + $42 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service.
10	Ambulatory service (low density location)..............	242 + $42 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service.
l0a	Ancillary communications service network, Class A	10,750
10b	Ancillary communications service network, Class B	107,500
11	AUSSAT service...................................................	167, 657
12	Australian satellite service......................................	167.66 per MHz bandwidth
13	Base station, Class I...............................................	for each orbital position 129
14	Base station, Class II (extra high density location)..	634 for each transmitting frequency
15	Base station, Class II (very high density/high density location)	505 for each transmitting frequency
16	Base station, Class II (low density location)............	242 for each transmitting
17	Base station, Class III.............................................	frequency 104 for each transmitting
18	Citizen band radio station.......................................	frequency 16 per transmitter
19	Coast station, Class A.............................................	1,011
20	Coast station, Class B.............................................	19,447
21	Disaster station......................................................	33
21a	Earth station, Australian satellite, service, Class A..	199 + $107,500 x T, where T equals the number of transponders, or fractions of a transponder or 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 licensee; and

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
(b) each transponder so accessed, including any transponder in relation to which a fraction is accessed, has a bandwidth not exceeding 45 MHz
22	Earth station, Australian satellite service, Class B	199 + $6708 x T, where T equals the number of transponders, or fractions of a transponder or 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 licensee; 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.........................................	376
24	Earth station, Class B.........................................	1,957
25	Earth station, Class C.........................................	9,879
26	Earth station, Class D.........................................	19,673
27	Earth station, Class E.........................................	92,138
28	Experimental station..........................................	80
29	Exterior paging service (other than low density location)	2,473
30	Exterior paging service (low density location)....	1,172
31	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, other than low density location)......................................................	645
32	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, low density location)	290
33	Fixed station, Class A (business).......................	156 for each transmitting frequency
34	Fixed station, Class A (private)..........................	55 for each transmitting frequency
35	Fixed station, Class B (other than low density location)	98 for each transmission path
36	Fixed station, Class B (low density location)......	77 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 band-widths 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 band-widths referred to in that subregulation.

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum 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 band-widths 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 band-widths referred to in that subregulation.
41	Fixed station, Class D1 (other than low density location)	194 for each transmission path
42	Fixed station, Class D1 (low density location)....................	98 for each transmission path
43	Fixed station, Class D2 (other than low density location).....	387 for each transmission path
44	Fixed station, Class D2 (low density location)....................	194 for each transmission path
45	Fixed station, Class E1 (other than low density location).....	98 for each transmission path
46	Fixed station, Class E1 (low density location)....................	49 for each transmission path
47	Fixed station, Class E2 (other than low density location).....	194 for each transmission path
48	Fixed station, Class E2 (low density location)....................	98 for each transmission path
49	General station, Class A...................................................	25
50	General station, Class B...................................................	124
51	General station, Class C...................................................	328
52	General station, Class D...................................................	656
53	General station, Class E...................................................	1,301
54	Handphone station..........................................................	16 per transmitter
55	Interior paging service.....................................................	134 per transmitter
56	Internal television service................................................	134 per transmitter
57	Land mobile system service (extra high density location)	2,741
58	Land mobile system service (very high density location)	2,612
59	Land mobile system service (special)................................	2,612
60	Land mobile system service (supplementary transmitter)	113
61	Limited coast station.......................................................	57
62	Marine rescue station......................................................	16
63	Mobile (disaster plan) station...........................................	55
64	Mobile outpost station.....................................................	16
65	Mobile station................................................................	42
66	Multipoint distribution station..........................................	20,705
67	Multipoint distribution repeater station..............................	58
68	Narrowband area station, Class A.....................................	2,623 per 25 KHz of bandwidth
69	Narrowband area station, Class B......................................	274 per 175 KHz of bandwidth
70	Outpost station...............................................................	16
71	Outside broadcast television station..................................	1,097
72	Radiodetermination station (high power)...........................	161
73	Radiodetermination station (low power)............................	40
74	Remote control station.....................................................	42
75	Repeater station..............................................................	32
76	Repeater station (passive)................................................	183
77	Ship station, Class A.......................................................	30
78	Ship station, Class B........................................................	40
79	Ship station, Class C........................................................	333
80	Telemetry service (other than low density location)............	1,387
81	Telemetry service (low density location)	699

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 November 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 197 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 194 and see also