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

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3071

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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 24 November 1988

N. M. STEPHEN

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 1988.

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

2. Regulation 4 of the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) 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.........................................	275	140
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200 ............	340	170
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500 ..........	660	330
4	Exceeding 300 but not exceeding 2,000........	1,230	610

(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..................................	45	22
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200......	57	29
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500....	68	34
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2.000.	91	46
5	Exceeding 2,000 but not exceeding 7,000	135	68
6	Exceeding 7,000 but not exceeding 14,000	275	140
7	Exceeding 14,000 but not exceeding 28,000	455	230
8	Exceeding 28,000 ................................	800	400

Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

TAX ON GRANT OF TRANSMITTER LICENCE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
1	Aeronautical station..................................................	83
2	Aircraft station. Class A............................................	200
3	Aircraft station. Class B............................................	37
4	Amateur station (unrestricted)...................................	30
5	Amateur station (limited)..........................................	30
6	Amateur station (novice)...........................................	30
7	Amateur station (combined limited and novice).........	30
8	Ambulatory service (extra high density location).......	590 + 39 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service.

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
9	Ambulatory service (very high density/high density location)	470 + 39 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service.
10	Ambulatory service (low density location)....................	225 + 39 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service.
11	AUSSAT service.......................................................	155,960
12	Australian satellite service..........................................	155.96 per MHz bandwidth for each orbital position
13	Base station, Class I...................................................	120
14	Base station, Class II (extra high density location).........	590
15	Base station, Class II (very high density/high density location)	470
16	Base station, Class II (low density location)..................	225
17	Base station, Class III.................................................	97
18	Citizen band radio station...........................................	15 per transmitter
19	Coast station, Class A.................................................	940
20	Coast station, Class B.................................................	18,090
21	Disaster station..........................................................	31
22	Earth station, Australian satellite service.......................	185 + $6,240 × 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.................................................	350
24	Earth station, Class B..................................................	1,820
25	Earth station, Class C..................................................	9,190
26	Earth station. Class D.................................................	18,300
27	Earth station, Class E..................................................	85,710
28	Experimental station...................................................	74
29	Exterior paging service (other than low density location)	2,300
30	Exterior paging service (low density location)...............	1,090
31	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, low density location)	600
32	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, low density location)	270
33	Fixed station, Class A (business).................................	145 for each transmitting frequency
34	Fixed station, Class A (private)....................................	51 for each transmitting frequency
35	Fixed station, Class B (other than low density location)	91 for each transmission path

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
36	Fixed station, Class B (low density location)..............	72 for each transmission path
37	Fixed station, Class CI (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.
39	Fixed station. Class C2 (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.
40	Fixed station. Class C2 (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.
41	Fixed station Class D1 (other than low density location)	180 for each transmission path
42	Fixed station. Class D1 (low density location).............	91 for each transmission path 360 for each transmission path
43	Fixed station, Class D2 (other than low density location)
44	Fixed station. Class D2 (low density location).............	180 for each transmission path
45	Fixed station, Class E1 (other than low density location)	91 for each transmission path
46	Fixed station. Class E1 (low density location).............	46 for each transmission path
47	Fixed station, Class E2 (other than low density location)	180 for each transmission path
48	Fixed station. Class E2 (low density location).............	91 for each transmission path
49	General station. Class A...........................................	23
50	General station. Class B............................................	115
51	General station, Class C............................................	305
52	General station. Class D...........................................	610
53	General station. Class E............................................	1,210
54	Handphone station...................................................	15 per transmitter
55	Interior paging service..............................................	125 per transmitter
56	Internal television service.........................................	125 per transmitter
57	Land mobile system service (extra high density location)	2,550
58	Land mobile system service (very high density location)	2,430
59	Land mobile system service (special).........................	2,430
60	Land mobile system service (supplementary transmitter)	105
61	Limited coast station................................................	53
62	Marine rescue station...............................................	15
63	Mobile (disaster plan) station....................................	51
64	Mobile outpost station..............................................	15
65	Mobile station.........................................................	39
66	Multipoint distribution station...................................	19,260
67	Multipoint distribution repeater station.......................	54

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
68	Narrowband area station. Class A................	2,440 per 25 KHz of bandwidth
69	Narrowband area station. Class B................	255 per 175 KHz of bandwidth
70	Outpost station................................................	15
71	Outside broadcast television station...........	1,020
72	Radiodetermination station (high power)...	150
73	Radiodetermination station (low power)....	37
74	Remote control station..................................	105
75	Repeater station..............................................	30
76	Repeater station (passive).............................	170
77	Ship station, Class .........................................	28
78	Ship station. Class B......................................	37
79	Ship station. Class C......................................	310
80	Telemetry service (other than low density location)	1,290
81	Telemetry service (low density location)...	650

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 November 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 197 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 220 and see also