Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 659

The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

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1994 No. 659

TELEGRAPHS

The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949^[1], and now vested in him^[2], the power conferred on him by article 8 of the Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) Order 1988^[3], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

    2.    In these Regulations, "the Principal Regulations" means the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1991^[4] as amended by the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1992^[5].

    3.    In regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations,
 (a) for the table in paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;
 (b) before the word "Local" in lines 1 and 4 of paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the words "National and"; and
 (c) for the words "17th January 1992" in paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the words "25th February 1994".

    4.    In regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations for the words "regulations 5, 6 and 8" in paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the words "regulations 5, 6, 8 and 9".

    5.    The following shall be inserted as regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations:—
"In relation to a Band III Private Mobile Radio National Trunked Service Licence, a Band III Private Mobile Radio Regional Trunked Service Licence, a National Public Data Network Service Licence, a National Public Radiotelephone System Licence and a Personal Communications Network Licence, where any such licence has been issued to a licensee in respect of a station or stations and another licensee subsequently applies for a licence in respect of that station or those stations, as the case may be, that licensee shall assume the position of the previous licensee on the fee scale applicable thereto set out in the Schedule." .

    6.    For the Schedule to the Principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry

1st March 1994
We consent to these Regulations,

Irvine Patnick

Andrew Mackay

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

8th March 1994

[1] 1949 c. 54; section 2 was extended to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, respectively, by S.I.1952/1900, amended by S.I.1967/1279, 1969/1396 and S.I.1952/1899; there are amendments to section 2 not relevant to these Regulations. back

[2] 1969 c. 48, section 3; S.I.1969/1369, article 3, 1371, article 2, and 1974/691, article 2. back

[3] S.I.1988/93, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No.2) Act 1987 (c. 51). back

[4] S.I.1991/542. back

[5] S.I.1992/362. back

Explanatory Note