7. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting paragraphs (2) (c) and (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(c) except in the case of an application for the renewal of a licence for the month following the month in which the licence was granted—accompanied by the franchise fee or, where subsection (2A) applies, the estimated amount of that fee; and
(d) the information relied on by the applicant in calculating or estimating the franchise fee (as the case may be) where that fee or estimated amount accompanies the application”;
(b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:
“(2A) An application for the renewal of a licence for the second month following the month in which it is granted shall be accompanied by an amount equal, in the estimation of the applicant, to the franchise fee likely to be assessed under subsection 20A (1).”; and
(c) by omitting subsections (4) and (6).