Citation, commencement, revocation and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
(2) The Regulations specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations are hereby revoked.
(3) These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
(a)“caravan” means any structure designed or adapted for habitation which is capable of being moved from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer) and any motor vehicle so designed or adapted,
(b)“touring caravan” means a caravan normally used for touring from place to place.
Meaning of Television Receiver
3. The following class or description of television receiving apparatus is hereby specified for the purpose of the definition of “television receiver” in the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949(1), namely such apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving television programme services, as defined by section 2(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1990, whether or not the apparatus is installed or used for other purposes.
Television licence fees
4.—(1) On the issue of a television licence (as defined by section 1(7) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949) of a type specified in an entry in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations and of the description specified in column 2 of that Part in relation to that entry, there shall be paid (irrespective of the duration of the licence) as the issue fee for a licence of that type and description the sum or, as the case may be, multiples of sums prescribed in column 3 of that Part or, in the case of entry 6 in column 1 of that Part, determined in accordance with Part III of the said Schedule.
(2) On the issue of a television licence of a type specified in an entry in column 1 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations and of the description specified in column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that entry, there shall be paid (irrespective of the duration of the licence) as the issue fee for a licence of that type and description the sum which is prescribed in column 3 of that Schedule in respect of that entry and thereafter as instalment payments such sums as are so prescribed.
Duplicate licences
5. Where a television licence has been lost or destroyed, there shall be paid on the issue of a duplicate of such a licence the sum of £3.25.
Virginia Bottomley
Secretary of State for National Heritage
6th February 1997
We consent to these Regulations.
Patrick McLoughlin
Richard Ottaway
Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
11th February 1997