Television Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1976 (Cth)

TELEVISION STATIONS LICENCE FEES

AMENDMENT ACT 1976

No. 103 of 1976

An Act to amend the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Television Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1976.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 September 1976.

3. Section 6 of the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964 is repealed and the following section substituted:—

Amount of fees.

“6. (1) There is payable on the grant of a licence, not being a grant by way of the renewal of a licence, a fee of $200.

“(2) There is payable on each anniversary of the date of commencement of a licence that occurs during the period of the licence, and on the grant of a licence that is by way of renewal of a licence, a fee of $200 together with–

(a) an amount equal to 1 per centum of such part of the gross earnings of the station to which the licence relates during the year ended on 30 June last preceding that anniversary or last preceding the commencement of the period for which the licence is renewed, as the case may be, as does not exceed $500,000;

(b) an amount equal to 1½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $500,000 but does not exceed $1,000,000;

(c) an amount equal to 2 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $1,000,000 but does not exceed $1,500,000;

(d) an amount equal to 2½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $1,500,000 but does not exceed $2,000,000;

(e) an amount equal to 3 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $2,000,000 but does not exceed $2,500,000;

(f) an amount equal to 3½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $2,500,000 but does not exceed $3,000,000;

(g) an amount equal to 4 per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $3,000,000 but does not exceed $3,500,000; and

(h) an amount equal to 4½ per centum of such part of those gross earnings as exceeds $3,500,000.

“(3) Where the licensee of a commercial television station has, with the leave of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board under section 106 of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, adopted an accounting period ending on a day other than 30 June, the reference in sub-section (2) to 30 June shall, in relation to that station, be read as a reference to that other day.

“(4) A reference in sub-section (2) to a licence shall be read as including a reference to a licence granted before the commencement of this Act.”.