Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2001/772
Year2001

2001 No. 772

TELEGRAPHS

The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made 6th March 2001

Laid before Parliament 8th March 2001

Coming into force 1st April 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 19491, as it has effect in the United Kingdom and as extended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Channel Islands) Order 19522and the Wireless Telegraphy (Isle of Man) Order 19523, and now vested in him4, hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

Amendment of the 1997 Regulations

Amendment of the 1997 Regulations

S-2 The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) Regulations...

2. The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) Regulations 19975shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6.

S-3 At the end of regulation 5 there shall be inserted the words,...

3. At the end of regulation 5 there shall be inserted the words, “; but no such sum shall be payable on the issue of a duplicate of a television licence that was issued or, as the case may be, renewed, free of charge.”.

S-4 Schedule 2 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation....

4.—(1) Schedule 2 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In Part I of that Schedule—

(a)

(a) for “£34.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£36.50”;

(b)

(b) for “£104.00” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£109.00”; and

(c) in item 5 (Accommodation for Residential Care Composite Form television licence) in column 3, at the end there shall be added—

; but (except in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) for the purposes of calculating the fee, no account shall be taken of any such unit of accommodation or, as the case may be, dwelling, that is the sole or main residence of a resident aged 75 years or more.”.

(3) In Part III of that Schedule—

(a)

(a) for “£33.50” there shall be substituted “£36.50”; and

(b)

(b) for “£101.00” there shall be substituted “£109.00”.

S-5 Schedule 3 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation....

5.—(1) Schedule 3 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In item 1 in that Schedule (premium instalment television licence), for the words “(not in Jersey or Guernsey)” there shall be substituted the words “(not in the Channel Islands)”; and for “£27.25”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£28.50”.

(3) For items 2 and 3 in that Schedule (budget instalment and easy entry licences) there shall be substituted the items set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

S-6 For Schedule 4 (interim etc. television licences) there...

6. For Schedule 4 (interim etc. television licences)6there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Chris Smith

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

6th March 2001

Jim Dowd

Greg Pope

Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

6th March 2001

SCHEDULE 1

Regulation 5(3)

Items to be substituted for items 2 and 3 in Schedule 3 to the 1997 Regulations

2 “Budget instalment television licence (including colour).

A licence as described in column 2 of item 2 in Part I of Schedule 2, the fee for which is payable in the instalments specified in column 3 of this Schedule.

An issue fee of £61.55 and thereafter five instalments of £9.49; or

an issue fee of £63.60 and thereafter five instalments of £9.08; or

an issue fee of £59.50 and thereafter five instalments of £9.90; or

an issue fee of £57.60 and thereafter five instalments of £10.28; or

an issue fee of £54.50 and thereafter five instalments of £10.90; or

an issue fee of £52.85 and thereafter five instalments of £11.23; or

an issue fee of £48.45 and thereafter five instalments of £12.11; or

an issue fee of £47.10 and thereafter five instalments of £12.38; or

an issue fee of £40.90 and thereafter five instalments of £13.62; or

an issue fee of £39.85 and thereafter five instalments of £13.83; or

an issue fee of £30.60 and thereafter five instalments of £15.68; or

an issue fee of £31.15 and thereafter five instalments of £15.57; or

an issue fee of £18.20 and thereafter five instalments of £18.16; or

an issue fee of £21.80 and thereafter four instalments of £21.80; or

an issue fee of £27.25 and thereafter three instalments of £27.25; or

an issue fee of £36.34 and thereafter two instalments of £36.33.

In each case the first instalment shall be payable within the period of one month beginning immediately after the issue of the licence and the second and, where applicable, the third, fourth and fifth within the periods of two, three, four and five months respectively, beginning immediately after that issue.

3 Easy entry television licence (not black and white only) (not in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man).

A licence as described in column 2...

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