The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/2265
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 19th July 2001 other than regulation 2(d)(vii) and Schedule 2 to the extent that such provisions relate to the Permanent Earth Station Licence and which shall come into force on 30th October 2001.

Section 2

The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1999 (“the Principal Regulations”) are hereby amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 3(2), “and a Scanning Telemetry Licence” shall be inserted after “a National and Regional Private Business Radio Licence” in the definition of “national channel”;

(b) in regulation 3(5)—

(i) “and” shall be deleted before, and “, a UK Wireless Microphone (Annual) Licence and a UK Wireless Microphone (Biennial) Licence” shall be inserted after, the words “a Programme Making and Special Events Link Licence”; and

(ii) sub-paragraph (b) shall be deleted;

(c) in regulation 5(3), “Ship Fixed Radio” shall be substituted for “Ship Radio” in sub-paragraph (xi) and the following provision shall be inserted after that sub-paragraph—

(xia) Ship Portable Radio;

(d) in Schedule 2—

(i) under the heading “ Amateur and Citizens' Band ”, the following words shall be substituted for the words in the third column relating to the Amateur Radio and Citizens' Band Radio Licences—

£15 per person aged 21 years or over; no charge for persons aged under 21 years or aged 75 years or over

(ii) under the heading “ Fixed Links ”—

(aa) “£720”, “£885”, “£1,030” and “£1,155” shall be substituted respectively for “£540”, “£664”, “£773” and “£866” in the third column relating to the Point to Multi-point Services 31.00 to 31.80 GHz Licence; and

(bb) the following shall be inserted at the end of the provisions relating to the Scanning Telemetry Licence—

(iii) under the heading “ Maritime ”—

(aa) the following licence classes shall be inserted after the Coastal Station Radio Licence—

(bb) the following licence class shall be inserted after the Maritime Radio (Navigational Aid and Radar) Licence—

(cc) the Ship Radio Licence shall be renamed the Ship Fixed Radio Licence; and

(dd) the following licence class shall be inserted after the Ship Fixed Radio Licence—

(iv) under the heading “ Private Business Radio ”, “£1,500” shall be substituted for “£1,000” in the second column relating to the Private Mobile Radio Road Construction Licence;

(v) under the heading “ Programme Making and Special Events ”—

(aa) “£55” shall be substituted for “£50” in lines 2 and 13 of the third column relating to the Programme Making and Special Events Fixed Site Licence;

(bb) “£55” shall be substituted for “£50” in lines 2 and 120 of, and lines 88 to 107 shall be deleted in, the third column relating to the Programme Making and Special Events Link Licence;

(cc) “£55” shall be substituted for “£50” in lines 2 and 29 of, and lines 12, 15, 19, 26 and 27 shall be deleted in, the third column relating to the Programme Making and Special Events Low Power Licence; and

(dd) the following licence classes shall be inserted after the Programme Making and Special Events Low Power Licence—

(vi) under the heading “ Public Telecommunications Networks ”—

(aa) “£32” and “£260” shall be substituted respectively for “£25” and “£200” in the third column relating to the Channel Islands and Isle of Man Cellular Telephone Operator Licence;

(bb) “£1,400” and “£750” shall be substituted respectively for “£1,200” and “£675” in the third column relating to the Common Base Station Operator Licence;

(cc) “£8,750”, “£7,500”, “£6,000”, “£6,000”, “£7,500”, “£3,840”, “£1,000”, “£17,820”, “£142,560”, “£110,880” and “£110,880” shall be substituted respectively for “£7,600”, “£6,000”, “£4,800”, “£4,800”, “£6,000”, “£2,640”, “£920”, “£10,000”, “£80,000”, “£75,000” and “£70,000” in the third column relating to the Public Mobile Operator Licence; and

(dd) “Fixed Wireless Access” shall be substituted for “Radio Fixed Access Operator” in the first column;

(vii) under the heading “ Satellite Services ”, the following shall be substituted for the provisions relating to the Permanent Earth Station Licence and the Transportable Earth Station Licence—

(viii) under the heading “ Technology Development ”, the following words shall be substituted for the words in the third column relating to the Unspecified Temporary Radio Use Licence—

“£50 for each channel per location each month”;

in Schedule 3, for Parts II and III there shall be substituted the Parts II and III set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall be inserted as Schedule 7 to the Principal Regulations.