EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Radiocommunications (Frequency Reservation Certificate Tax) Regulations (Amendment:)
Statutory Rule 1989 No. 322
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Communications
Section 9 of the Radiocommunications (Frequency Reservation Certificate Tax) Act 1983 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing the amounts of tax payable in respect of the grant of frequency reservation certificates pursuant to section 21 of the
Radiocommunications Act 1983.
Frequency reservation certificates have the effect of reserving a frequency or frequencies for the use of a person who intends to apply in future for a radiocommunications transmitter licence, but who needs further time to make technical arrangements such as obtaining suitable equipment. Frequency reservation certificates are generally granted only in respect of those classes of licence where a substantial capital expenditure is likely to be incurred for the necessary equipment.
Certificates are divided into two classes: one relating to frequencies below 1 GHz, while the other relates to frequencies above and including 1 GHz. Different rates of tax are imposed for these two classes of certificate in regulation 2 of the Radiocommunications (Frequency Reservation Certificate Tax) Regulations.
The amending regulations increased the amounts of tax payable in respect of the grant of frequency reservation certificates by 7.5%, in accordance with decisions made by the Government in the Budget context.
The amending regulations commence on 1 December 1989.