The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 353

TELEGRAPHS

The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

21st February 1992

Laid before Parliament

3rd March 1992

Coming into force

1st April 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949(1), as it has effect in the United Kingdom and as extended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Channel Islands) Order 1952(2) and the Wireless Telegraphy (Isle of Man) Order 1952(3), and now vested in me(4), I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, make the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

(2) These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

2.  The Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) Regulations 1991(5) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in regulation 4, for “£2.50” there shall be substituted “£3.25”;

(b) in Schedule 2–

(i) for “£25.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£26.50”;

(ii) for “£77” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£80”; and

(iii) for “£3” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£3.50”; and

(c) in Schedule 3–

(i) for “£38.50” there shall be substituted “£40”;

(ii) for “£19.25” there shall be substituted “£20”; and

(iii) for “£20.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£21.25”.

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

20th February 1992

We consent to these Regulations

Sydney Chapman

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

21st February 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations raise the amount of the basic fee for television licences from £25.50 to £26.50 in the case of monochrome and from £77 to £80 in the case of colour. In the case of instalment licences the issue fee for the Standard Instalment Licence is increased from £38.50 to £40 with instalment fees raised from £19.25 to £20. For the Premium Instalment Licence the issue and instalment fees of £20.50 are both increased to £21.25. The fee for a duplicate licence is also increased, from £2.50 to £3.25, and the fee for a dealer demonstration licence is raised from £3 to £3.50.

(1)

1949 c. 54; section 2 is amended by Part I of Schedule 18 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42). The said Part I was extended to Guernsey by the Broadcasting Act 1990 (Guernsey) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/191), to Jersey by the Broadcasting Act 1990 (Jersey) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/193) and to the Isle of Man by the Broadcasting Act 1990 (Isle of Man) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/192).

(2)

S.I. 1952/1900.

(3)

S.I. 1952/1899.

(4)

Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48); S.I. 1969/1369, 1371, 1974/691.

(5)

S.I. 1991/436.