Television Licence Fees Amendment (Licence Fee Rebate) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Television Licence Fees Amendment (Licence Fee Rebate) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mitch Fifield

Minister for Communications

Contents

1Name

This is the Television Licence Fees Amendment (Licence Fee Rebate) Regulation 2016.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	6 May 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Television Licence Fees Act 1964.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Television Licence Fees Regulations 1990

1. 1

   Regulation 20 (definition of Australian Content Standard)

Repeal the definition.

2

Regulation 20 (definition of eligible licensee)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

eligible licensee means a licensee who holds a commercial television broadcasting licence allocated under section 36, 38A or 38B of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

3

Regulation 21

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

21Application of the scheme

The rebate scheme in this Part applies to eligible licensees for the accounting period ending on a day in 2016.

4

Regulation 22

Repeal the regulation.

5

Subregulation 23(1)

Omit “accounting periods”, substitute “accounting period”.

6

Subregulations 23(2), (2A) and (2B)

Repeal the subregulations, substitute:

1. (2)

   For the accounting period:

   1. (a)

      the amount of rebate is 25%; and

   2. (b)

      the deadline for claiming the rebate is 31 December 2016.

7

Subregulation 24(1)

Omit “any of the accounting periods to which the licence fee rebate applies”, substitute “the accounting period mentioned in regulation 21”.

8

Subregulation 24(2)

Omit “an accounting period”, substitute “the accounting period”.

9

Subregulation 24(2)

Omit “that accounting period”, substitute “the accounting period”.