The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1885
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.

Section 2

The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1995 are hereby amended as follows:

(a) in regulation 3(4), for sub-paragraphs (a), (d) and (f) there shall be substituted respectively the following sub-paragraphs:

(a) “area” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee may use in an area with a population coverage of 200,000 individuals or more but below 2 million individuals;

(d) “premium case” means a case where at the applicant’s request such licence is granted or varied outside office hours; and for the purposes of this definition “office hours” means 09.00 to 17.00 hours from Monday to Friday other than on a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales;

(f) “regional” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee is authorised to use in an area with a population coverage of 2 million individuals or more but below 12 million individuals;

(b) in regulation 3(4), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs:

(ea) “programme making” includes the making of a programme for broadcast, the making of a film, presentation, advertisement or audio or video tape, and the staging or performance of an entertainment, sporting or other public event;

(eb) “programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station;

(ga) “restricted service programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station where the transmission is for a period not exceeding thirty consecutive days;

(c) in regulation 4(2), the words “such day not being a time at which the licence falls to be renewed,” shall be inserted between the words “as the case may be),” and the words “shall be the prescribed time”; and

(d) in Schedule 4, the provisions in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be substituted for the provisions relating to the categories headed “ Broadcasting and Ancillary Services ” and “ Hobby Radio ”.