Radiocommunications (Broadcast Licence Charges)

L.N. 532 of 2004

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT

(CAP. 49)

Radiocommunications (Broadcast Licence Charges)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4(2) of the

Radiocommunications Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and

Communications, in concurrence with the Prime Minister and Minister

of Finance, has made the following regulations>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Radiocommunications

(Broadcast Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004 and they

shall be read and construed as one with the Radiocommunications

(Broadcast Licence Charges) Regulations contained in the Schedule to

the Radiocommunications Act, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1st May, 2004.

The following proviso shall be added to regulation 3 of the

principal regulations>

“Provided that in respect of any licence fee paid in respect of

Satellite Terminal Receiving Equipment covering a period after

the 30th April, 2004, the licensee shall be entitled to a refund of

two liri and eight cents (Lm2.08) for every full period of one

calendar month (with parts of calendar months not being reckoned)

between the 1st May, 2004 and the date, not being after the 31st

March, 2005, on which the said licence would have expired.”.

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