Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELEVISION STATIONS LICENCE FEES AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 103, 1976 - SECT 3

3. Section 6 of the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964*2* is repealed
and the following section substituted:- Amount of fees.
''6. (1) There is payable on the grant of a licence, not being a grant by way
of the renewal of a licence, a fee of $200.

''(2) There is payable on each anniversary of the date of commencement of a
licence that occurs during the period of the licence, and on the grant of a
licence that is by way of renewal of a licence, a fee of $200 together with-

   (a)  an amount equal to 1 per centum of such part of the gross earnings of
        the station to which the licence relates during the year ended on 30
        June last preceding that anniversary or last preceding the
        commencement of the period for which the licence is renewed, as the
        case may be, as does not exceed $500,000;

   (b)  an amount equal to 11/2 per centum of such part of those gross
        earnings as exceeds $500,000 but does not exceed $1,000,000;

   (c)  an amount equal to 2 per centum of such part of those gross earnings
        as exceeds $1,000,000 but does not exceed $1,500,000;

   (d)  an amount equal to 21/2 per centum of such part of those gross
        earnings as exceeds $1,500,000 but does not exceed $2,000,000;

   (e)  an amount equal to 3 per centum of such part of those gross earnings
        as exceeds $2,000,000 but does not exceed $2,500,000;

   (f)  an amount equal to 31/2 per centum of such part of those gross
        earnings as exceeds $2,500,000 but does not exceed $3,000,000;

   (g)  an amount equal to 4 per centum of such part of those gross earnings
        as exceeds $3,000,000 but does not exceed $3,500,000; and

   (h)  an amount equal to 41/2 per centum of such part of those gross
        earnings as exceeds $3,500,000.

''(3) Where the licensee of a commercial television station has, with the
leave of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board under section 106 of the
Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, adopted an accounting period ending on a
day other than 30 June, the reference in sub-section (2) to 30 June shall, in
relation to that station, be read as a reference to that other day.

''(4) A reference in sub-section (2) to a licence shall be read as including a
reference to a licence granted before the commencement of this Act.''.
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