RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 NO. 144, 1988 

RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 NO. 144, 1988 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title etc.  
2. Commencement  
3.  

RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 No. 144, 1988 - LONG TITLE
           Act to amend the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964, and
                         for related purposes

RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 No. 144, 1988
- SECT 1
Short title etc.

                                                  (Assented to 26 December 1988)
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Radio Licence Fees (National
Metropolitan Radio Plan) Act 1988.
  (2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964*1*.
(Minister's second reading speech made in-
    House of Representatives on 2 November 1988
    Senate on 22 November 1988)
*1* No. 119, 1964, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; No.
148, 1973; Nos. 37 and 188, 1976; No. 94, 1977; No. 50, 1978; Nos. 114 and
168, 1981; No. 155, 1982; No. 58, 1983; No. 68, 1985; Nos. 66 and 116, 1987;
144 and 146, 1988.

RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 No. 144, 1988
- SECT 2
Commencement

  2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

RADIO LICENCE FEES (NATIONAL METROPOLITAN RADIO PLAN) ACT 1988 No. 144, 1988
- SECT 3

  3. After section 6B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Fee in respect of licence on conversion from AM to FM as part of the National
Metropolitan Radio Plan
  "6C. (1) Where the Minister converts an AM commercial radio licence to FM
pursuant to an application made under section 89DAE of the Broadcasting Act,
there is payable in respect of the licence, upon the conversion, a fee of an
amount equal to the amount ascertained in accordance with the formula:
                                      B-V
where:
  B  is the amount of the bid made by the licensee, pursuant to paragraph
89DAE (2) (c) of the Broadcasting Act, for conversion of the licence to FM;
and
  V  is the transmission facilities value. 2
  "(2) The amount of the deposit paid by the licensee pursuant to subsection
89DAE (8) of the Broadcasting Act in relation to the application shall be set
off against the licensee's liability for the fee imposed by subsection (1).".