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

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 2811

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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 25 September 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. J. DUFFY

Minister of State for Communications

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1986.

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—

(a) by omitting paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of the definition of “service” in sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(e) Exterior paging service (high density location);

(f) Exterior paging service (low density location);

(g) Exterior paging station (supplementary transmitter—high density location);

(ga) Exterior paging station (supplementary transmitter—low density location);”; and

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

“‘transmission path’ means the line of radiocommunication transmission between a transmitter and a receiver.”.

4. Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

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

“4. (1) The rate per annum of tax in respect of the grant of a licence in respect of a radiocommunications transmitter that operates—

(a) in relation to a fixed station, Class C1 (high density location) having a bandwidth range referred to in Column 2 of an item in the table at the foot of this sub-regulation—is, in relation to each transmission path relating to that transmitter, the amount per annum specified in Column 3 of that item; and

(b) in relation to a fixed station, Class C1 (low density location) having a bandwidth range referred to in Column 2 of an item in the table at the foot of this sub-regulation—is, in relation to each transmission path relating to that transmitter, the amount per annum specified in Column 4 of that item.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item No.	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	Amount per annum of tax (high density location)	Amount per annum of tax (low density location)
$	$
1	Not exceeding 36.....................................	240	120
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200...........	300	150
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500.........	580	290
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000.......	1,080	540

“(2) The rate per annum of tax in respect of the grant of a licence in respect of a radiocommunications transmitter that operates—

(a) in relation to a fixed station, Class C2 (high density location) having a bandwidth range referred to in Column 2 of an item in the table at the foot of this sub-regulation—is, in relation to each transmission path relating to that transmitter, the amount per annum specified in Column 3 of that item; and

(b) in relation to a fixed station, Class C2 (low density location) having a bandwidth range referred to in Column 2 of an item in the table at the foot of this sub-regulation—is, in relation to each transmission path relating to that transmitter, the amount per annum specified in Column 4 of that item.

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item No.	Bandwidth range in kilohertz	Amount per annum of tax (high density location)	Amount per annum of tax (low density location)
$	$
1	Not exceeding 36.....................................	40	20
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200.........	50	25
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500.......	60	30
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000....	80	40
5	Exceeding 2,000 but not exceeding 7,000.	120	60
6	Exceeding 7,000 but not exceeding 14,000	240	120
7	Exceeding 14,000 but not exceeding 28,000	400	200
8	Exceeding 28,000....................................	700	350

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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.........................	70
2	Aircraft station, Class A...................	165
3	Aircraft station, Class B...................	35
4	Amateur station (unrestricted)..........	26
5	Amateur station (limited).................	26
6	Amateur station (novice)..................	26
7	Amateur station (combined limited and novice)	26
8	AUSSAT service.............................	137,500
9	Australian satellite service...............	137.50	per MHz bandwidth for each orbital position
10	Base station, Class A (high density location)	380	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
11	Base station, Class A (low density location)	200	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
12	Base station, Class A (extra high density location) service.................................................	2,130
13	Base station, Class A (high density location) service	2,130	for each transmitting frequency and, where 2 or more transmitters use the same transmitting frequency, $380 for the second and each subsequent transmitter using that frequency

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
14	Base station, Class A (low density location) service	2,130	for each transmitting frequency and, where 2 or more transmitters use the same transmitting frequency, $200 for the second and each subsequent transmitter using that frequency
15	Base station, Class B.......................	81	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof for frequencies below 30 MHz, or for each transmitting frequency of or above 30 MHz
16	Citizen band radio station................	13
17	Coast station, Class A.....................	830
18	Coast station, Class B......................	15,950
19	Disaster station...............................	27
20	Earth station, Australian satellite service	165	plus $5,500 × 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
21	Earth station, Class A......................	310
22	Earth station, Class B......................	1,610
23	Earth station, Class C......................	8,100
24	Earth station, Class D......................	16,130
25	Earth station, Class E......................	75,570
26	Experimental station.......................	65
27	Exterior paging service (high density location)	2,130
28	Exterior paging service (low density location)	960
29	Exterior paging station (supplementary transmitter—high density location).......................	530
30	Exterior paging station (supplementary transmitter—low density location).......................	240
31	Fixed station, Class A (business)....	250	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
32	Fixed station, Class A (private).......	90	for each pair of transmitting frequencies or part thereof
33	Fixed station, Class B (high density location)	80	for each transmission path
34	Fixed station, Class B (low density location)	64	for each transmission path

 

SCHEDULE— continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
35	Fixed station, Class C1 (high density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with sub-regulation 4 (1) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that sub-regulation
36	Fixed station, Class C1 (low density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with sub-regulation 4 (1) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that sub-regulation
37	Fixed station, Class C2 (high density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with sub-regulation 4 (2) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that sub-regulation
38	Fixed station, Class C2 (low density location)	for each transmission path, the rate ascertained in accordance with sub-regulation 4 (2) having regard to the bandwidths referred to in that sub-regulation
39	Fixed station, Class Dl (high density location)	160	for each transmission path
40	Fixed station, Class Dl (low density location)	80	for each transmission path
41	Fixed station, Class D2 (high density location)	320	for each transmission path
42	Fixed station, Class D2 (low density location)	160	for each transmission path
43	Fixed station, Class E1 (high density location)	80	for each transmission path
44	Fixed station, Class E1 (low density location)	40	for each transmission path
45	Fixed station, Class E2 (high density location)	160	for each transmission path
46	Fixed station, Class E2 (low density location)	80	for each transmission path
47	General station, Class A...................	21
48	General station, Class B...................	105
49	General station, Class C...................	270
50	General station, Class D...................	540
51	General station, Class E...................	1,070
52	Handphone station..........................	13
53	Interior paging service.....................	110	per transmitter
54	Internal television service................	110	per transmitter
55	Limited coast station.......................	95
56	Marine rescue station......................	13
57	Mobile (disaster plan) station..........	45
58	Mobile outpost station ....................	13
59	Mobile station.................................	35
60	Multipoint distribution station, Class A	300
61	Multipoint distribution station, Class B (high density location)...................................	9,000

 

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per annum of tax
$
62	Multipoint distribution station, Class b (low density location).............	2,130
63	Multipoint distribution repeater station	25
64	Narrowband area stations (low frequency)	2,130	per 25 kHz of bandwidth
65	Narrowband area stations (high frequency)....................................	225	per 175 kHz of bandwidth
66	Outpost station...................	13
67	Outside broadcast television station	900
68	Radiodetermination station (high power)	130
69	Radiodetermination station (low power)	35
70	Remote control station........	86
71	Repeater station .................	26
72	Repeater station (passive)....	150
73	Ship station, Class A...........	24
74	Ship station, Class b............	33
75	Ship station, Class C...........	270
76	Telemetry service...............	1,140

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 September 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 197 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 129 and see also