RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST RECEIVING LICENCE CHARGES) REGULATIONS

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST

RECEIVING LICENCE CHARGES)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 399.31

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST

RECEIVING LICENCE CHARGES) REGULATIONS

15th October, 2010

LEGAL NOTICE 454 of 2010.

The title of these regulations is the Radiocommunications

(Broadcast Receiving Licence Charges) Regulations.

(Regulation 3)

Issue and Renewal Fees on Broadcasting Receiving Licenses

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Issue Fee Renewal Fee

Type of

Description of Licence

licence

€

€

1. Broadcast A l i c e n c e t o i n s t a l l a n d , o r o p e r a t e

R e c e i v i n g apparatus for the reception of visual

Licence

- images in colour sent by television, (not

General Form being a licence authorising the use of

apparatus for radiocommunications for

the purpose of the exhibition of visual

images received by television to persons

who are charged for viewing such

exhibition) -

(a) for each

colour television

receiver which is not connected

with

a

satellite

television

receiving terminal, to be used

exclusively in bedrooms of

hotels, aparthotels and tourists

villages as defined in the Malta

Travel and Tourism Services Act

and regulations made thereunder

(b) for each other colour television

receiver

used

in

hotels,

aparthotels and tourists villages

(c) for one colour television receiver

belonging to any one person or

his or her spouse and to be used

in premises other than in hotels,

aparthotels and tourists villages

(d) for a second, third or fourth

colour television receiver up to a

total of four colour television

receivers belonging to any one

person or his or her spouse and to

be used in premises other than in

hotels, aparthotels and tourists

villages

(e) for each additional group of four

colour television receivers or part

thereof belonging to any one

person or his or her spouse and to

be used in premises other than

hotels, aparthotels and tourists

villages

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST

RECEIVING LICENCE CHARGES)

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Issue Fee Renewal Fee

Type of

Description of Licence

licence

€

€

Provided that in the case of the

registration of a television receiver, there

shall be paid once only a registration fee

of €11.60 in respect of each television

receiver

Provided further that no issue or

registration fee shall be incurred in the

case of the transfer either inter vivos or

causa mortis of a licence from a person

to his spouse, or other members of his or

her family living in the same household.

(1) Any reference in these regulations to "the Act" is a

reference to the Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act, and

any regulations made thereunder, unless the context otherwise

requires and subject to the provisions of subregulation (2), the

provisions of article 28 of the Act shall apply to these regulations.

(2) In these regulations and unless the context otherwise

requires, "the Minister" means the Minister responsible for

communications.

(1) On the issue and on each renewal of a broadcast

receiving licence of a type and description specified in columns 1

and 2 respectively of the Schedule the licensee shall pay a fee of

the amount specified in relation to that type and description of

licence in columns 3 and 4 of the said Schedule, whatever may be

the duration of the licence.

(2) Licences shall be issued or renewed for such period as may

be specified by the Minister in each case, provided that where the

period for which the licence is issued or renewed as specified by

the Minister is less than one year, the issue fee or the renewal fee,

as the case may be, shall be reduced in proportion to the number of

months, or part thereof, as is included in the period for which the

licence is issued or renewed.

On the revocation or variation of a licence to which these

regulations apply no part of any fee already paid or due to be paid

shall be refunded or cease to be due.

The Minister may reduce or remit any fee prescribed by or

under these regulations where he is satisfied that the payment of

such fee would cause hardship to the person by whom the fee is

payable.

For the purpose of securing that the work of issuing and

renewing licences to which these regulations apply shall be evenly

spread, the Minister may fix the periods during which licences of

any one or more classes shall be issued or renewed, and notice of

such periods shall be published in the Gazette.

The fees prescribed by the regulations in respect of

broadcast receiving licences for apparatus in any area or in non-

foreign going water craft shall be payable to such person or

persons, in such place or places, and during such time or times as

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST

RECEIVING LICENCE CHARGES)

shall be specified by notice published in the Gazette.

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (BROADCAST

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