The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004

Regulation 3(1)(e)

SCHEDULE 5 TV Licence Fees for Hotels and Hospitality Areas and Mobile Units

Interpretation

1.  In this Schedule—

“hospitality area” means any establishment, other than a hotel, within the same premises or, as the case may be, on the same site which provides rooms or other similar places (referred to below as “entertainment units”) in which entertainment is provided for guests (whether or not for payment);

“hotel” means any establishment within the same premises or, as the case may be, on the same site which (whether or not it also provides other services) offers accommodation consisting wholly or mainly of units of overnight accommodation for guests staying for no longer than 28 nights in any consecutive period, and includes an inn, guest-house, holiday camp, caravan site and camp site;

“mobile units” means mobile units of overnight accommodation (whether or not used at other times) for guests, which are provided by the same person and operated from the same place;

“relevant amount”, where it is used for the purposes of determining an amount payable in respect of television receivers installed or used in one or more units, means—

(a)

where black and white television receivers only are installed or used in the units, £40.50;

(b)

in any other case, £121.00; and

“units” means entertainment units in a hospitality area, units of overnight accommodation in a hotel or mobile units, as the case may be.

Type and description of TV licence

2.—(1) This Schedule specifies the fee payable in respect of a TV licence known as a “TV licence Hospitality Area, Hotel and Mobile Units Comprehensive Form”.

(2) A licence of the type referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is a licence to install and use television receivers in a hospitality area, hotel or mobile units.

Issue fee

3.—(1) Where television receivers are only installed or used otherwise than in units used or available for use by guests, the fee is—

(a) £40.50, where only black and white television receivers are used or installed; or

(b) in any other case, £121.00.

(2) In any case not falling within sub-paragraph (1) the fee is to be determined as follows—

(a) if the number of units used or available for use by guests in which television receivers are installed or used does not exceed 15, the fee is the relevant amount;

(b) if the number of such units exceeds 15 and forms a multiple of 5, the fee is—

• A + B, where

• A is the relevant amount, and

• B is the total amount payable in respect of the units exceeding 15 where the amount payable in respect of each multiple of 5 such units is the relevant amount;

(c) if the number of units used or available for use by guests in which television receivers are installed or used exceeds 15 but does not form a multiple of 5, the fee is the fee applicable under paragraph (b) above for the multiple next above that number.

(3) For the purposes of determining the fee under sub-paragraph (2) units in which colour television receivers are installed or used shall be counted first.