S.I. No. 199/1963:

BROADCASTING (RECEIVING LICENCES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1963.

BROADCASTING (RECEIVING LICENCES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1963.

I, MICHAEL HILLIARD, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 6 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 (No. 45 of 1926), as amended by the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1956 (No. 4 of 1956), and the Broadcasting Authority Act, 1960 (No. 10 of 1960), and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following Regulations:

1.--(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Broadcasting (Receiving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the Broadcasting (Receiving Licences) Regulations, 1961 and 1963.

(3) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1963.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Broadcasting (Receiving Licences) Regulations, 1961 ( S.I. No. 279 of 1961 ).

4. Paragraph (1) of Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of "five pounds" for "four pounds" and the substitution of "one pound, five shillings" for "one pound".

5.--Regulation 14 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (2):

"(2) The rebate in respect of a licence for which a fee of one pound was paid shall be calculated at the rate of one shilling and eight pence for each complete month and the part (if any) of a month for which the licence would otherwise have continued in force from the date of the surrender thereof and the rebate in respect of a licence for which a fee of one pound, five shillings was paid shall be calculated at the rate of two shillings and one pence for each complete month and the part (if any) of a month for which the licence would otherwise have continued in force from the date of the surrender thereof."

6.--The First Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of "£5" for "£4" in each place where it occurs.

7.--The Second Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of "£l 5s. 0d." for "£1" in each place where it occurs.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 23rd day of October, 1963.

MICHAEL HILLIARD.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this

23rd day of October, 1963.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend the Broadcasting (Receiving Licences) Regulations, 1961, in so far as licence fees are concerned. They provide for revised fees for both combined and sound receiving licences and also for a revised rate of rebate where a sound licence is surrendered in certain circumstances.