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

Statutory Rules 1991 No. 3851

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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 20 November 1991.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R McMULLAN

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer 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 1991.

2. Amendment

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

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

3.1 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	330	169
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200	407	204
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500	791	395
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000	1,472	731

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3.2 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 35	54	27
2	Exceeding 36 but not exceeding 200	68	34
3	Exceeding 200 but not exceeding 500	82	41

 

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)
$	$
4	Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 2,000	110	55
5	Exceeding 2,000 but not exceeding 7,000	161	82
6	Exceeding 7,000 but not exceeding 14,000	330	169
7	Exceeding 14,000 but not exceeding 28,000	545	275
8	Exceeding 28,000	957	479

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4. Schedule (Tax on grant of transmitter licence)

The Schedule to the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax)

Regulations is amended as set out in the following table:

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SCHEDULE

TAX ON GRANT OF TRANSMITTER LICENCE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
1	Aeronautical station	99
2	Aircraft station, Class A	240
3	Aircraft station, Class B	44
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)	144 + 47 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
8	Ambulatory service (extra high density location)	706 + 47 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)	562 + 47 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
10	Ambulatory service (low density location)	270 + 47 in respect of each mobile station, other than the first such station, that forms part of the service
10a	Ancillary communications network, Class A	11,972
10b	Ancillary communications network, Class B	119,714
11	AUSSAT service	186,706
12	Australian satellite service	186,71 per MHz bandwidth for each orbital position
13	Base station, Class I	144
14	Base station, Class II (extra high density location)	706 for each transmitting frequency
15	Base station, Class II (very high density/ high density location)	562 for each transmitting frequency
16	Base station, Class II (low density location)	270 for each transmitting frequency
17	Base station, Class III	116 for each transmitting frequency
18	Citizen band radio station	18 per transmitter
19	Coast station, Class A	1,126
20	Coast station, Class B	21,656
20a	Cordless telephone system service	207

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
21	Disaster station	37
21a	Earth station, Australian satellite service, Class A	221 + $119,714 × 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.
22	Earth station, Australian satellite service, Class B	221 + $7,471 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	419
24	Earth station, Class B	2,180
25	Earth station, Class C	11,002
26	Earth station, Class D	21,908
27	Earth Station, Class E	102,607
28	Experimental station	89
29	Exterior paging service (other than low density location)	2,754

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
30	Exterior paging service (low density location)	1,305
31	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, other than low density location)	719
32	Exterior paging service (supplementary transmitter, low density location)	323
32a	Exterior paging service (weather information)	103
33	Fixed station, Class A (business)	174 for each transmitting frequency
34	Fixed station, Class A (private)	61 for each transmitting frequency
35	Fixed station, Class B (other than low density location)	110 for each transmission path
36	Fixed station, Class B (low density location)	86 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
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)	216 for each transmission path

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
42	Fixed station, Class D1 (low density location)	110 for each transmission path
43	Fixed station, Class D2 (other that low density location)	431 for each transmission path
44	Fixed station, Class D2 (low density location)	216 for each transmission path
45	Fixed station, Class E1 (other than low density location)	110 for each transmission path
46	Fixed station, Class E1 (low density location)	55 for each transmission path
47	Fixed station, Class E2 (other than low density location)	216 for each transmission path
48	Fixed station, Class E2 (low density location)	110 for each transmission path
49	General station, Class A	28
50	General station, Class B	139
51	General station, Class C	365
52	General station, Class D	731
53	General station, Class E	1,449
54	Handphone station	18 per transmitter
55	Interior paging service	149 per transmitter
56	Internal television service	149 per transmitter
57	Land mobile system service (extra high density location)	3,052
58	Land mobile system service (very high density location)	2,909
59	Land mobile system service (special)	2,909
60	Land mobile system service (supplementary transmitter)	126
60a	Land station (data communications)	47
61	Limited coast station	63
62	Marine rescue station	18
63	Mobile (disaster plan) station	61
64	Mobile outpost station	18
65	Mobile station	47
66	Multipoint distribution station, Class A	11,529
66a	Multipoint distribution station, Class B	23,057

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item No.	Expression	Rate per year of tax
$
67	Multipoint distribution repeater station	64
68	Narrowband area station, Class A	2,921 per 25 KHz of bandwidth
69	Narrowband area station, Class B	305 per 175 KHz of bandwidth
70	Outpost station	18
71	Outside broadcast station	1,221
72	Radiodetermination station (highpower)	179
73	Radiodetermination station (highpower)	44
74	Remote control station	47
75	Repeater station	35
76	Repeater station (passive)	204
77	Ship station, Class A	33
78	Ship station, Class B	44
79	Ship station, Class C	371
80	Telemetry service (other than low density location)	1545
81	Telemetry service (low density location)	779

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 November 1991.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 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 and 362.