Television
Licence Fees Amendment Act (No. 3) 1987
No. 117 of 1987
An Act to amend
the Television Licence Fees Act 1964,and for related purposes
[Assented to 16 December 1987]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title etc.
1. (1) This Act may be cited
as the Television Licence Fees Amendment
Act (No. 3) 1987.
(2) In this Act, “Principal
Act” means the Television Licence Fees
Act 19641.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Amount
of fees
3. Section 6 of the
Principal Act is amended:
(a)
by omitting from paragraph (2a)
(f) “or”; and
(b)
by omitting paragraph (2a) (g) and
substituting the following paragraphs:
“(g)
where those gross earnings are not less than $45,000,000 but are less than
$75,000,000—the percentage
ascertained in accordance with the formula:
; or
(h)
where those gross earnings are not less than $75,000,000— whichever is the lesser of 9% or the percentage ascertained in
accordance with the formula:
;”.
Change
of accounting period—effect on fees payable
4. Section 6a of the Principal Act is amended:
(a)
by omitting “or” from the paragraph (2a)
(f) set out in paragraph (e) of that section; and
(b)
by omitting the paragraph (2a) (g)
set out in paragraph (e) of that section and substituting the following
paragraphs:
“(g)
where A is not less than $45,000,000
but is less than $75,000,000—the percentage ascertained in accordance with the
formula:
; or
(h)
where A is not less than $75,000,000—whichever is the lesser of 9% or the
percentage ascertained in accordance with the formula:
;”.
Amendments
of Television Stations Licence Fees Act
1964 as in force immediately before 1 January 1986 for the purposes of its
continued application to old system licences
5. Without prejudice to
the effect that sections 3and 4
have apart from this section, those sections also have effect, for the purpose
of the continued application, by virtue of section 11 of the Television Stations Licence Fees Amendment
Act 1985, of the Television Stations
Licence Fees Act 1964 as in force immediately before 1 January 1986, as if
references in those sections to the Principal Act were references to the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964 as
in force immediately before 1 January 1986.
Application
6. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the amendments made by sections 3
and 4 apply in relation to an anniversary (whether occurring before or after
the commencement of this Act) of the date of commencement of a licence if, and
only if, the due date (within the meaning of section 123a of the Broadcasting
Act 1942)in respect of the fee
payable on that anniversary occurs on or after 1 January 1988.
(2) The amendments made by sections
3 and 4 by virtue of section 5, apply in relation to an anniversary (whether
occurring before or after the commencement of this Act) of the date of
commencement of a licence if, and only if, the due date (within the meaning of
section 106aa of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 as
in force immediately before 1 January 1986) in respect of the fee payable on
that anniversary occurs on or after 1 January 1988.
NOTE
1. No. 118,
1964, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; Nos. 37, 103 and
189, 1976; No. 96, 1977; No. 51, 1978; No. 169, 1981; No. 156, 1982; No. 59, 1983;
No. 69, 1985; and Nos. 14 and 67, 1987.
[Minister’s
second reading speech made in—
House
of Representatives on 28 October 1987
Senate
on 19 November 1987