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

2.  The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1995(1) 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;”; and

“(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;”; and

“(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”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/1331, as amended by S.I. 1996/1464 and S.I. 1997/1006.