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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.
(2) In these Regulations “the 1997 Regulations” means the Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) Regulations 1997.
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(1) The 1997 Regulations shall be amended as follows:
(a) in Schedule 2–
(i) for “£32.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£33.50”;
(ii) for “£97.50” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “£101.00”;
(iii) in paragraph 2(b)(iii) of Part II the words “or by the Development Board for Rural Wales in accordance with section 3(2) of the Development of Rural Wales Act 1976” shall be omitted;
(iv) paragraph 3(b)(iii) of Part II shall be omitted;
(b) in entry 1 in Schedule 3–
(i) for “£25.64” there shall be substituted “£26.50”;
(ii) for “£25.62” there shall be substituted “£26.50”; and
(c) in entry 3 for column 3 in Schedule 3 there shall be substituted–“An issue fee of £3.90, thereafter 24 weekly instalments of £3.90 and a final weekly instalment of £3.50.”.
(2) The 1997 Regulations shall be further amended by substituting for entry 2 in Schedule 3 the entry set out in the Schedule to this Order.
Chris Smith
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
7th March 1999We consent to these Regulations
Bob Ainsworth
Clive Betts
Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th March 1999
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(2)

Entry to be substituted for entry 2 in Schedule 3 to the 1997 Regulations.“

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Budget instalment television licence (including colour) A licence as described in column 2 of item 2 in Part I of Schedule 2, the fee for which is payable in the instalments specified in column 3 of this Schedule. An issue fee of £58.95 and thereafter five instalments of £8.41; or
  an issue fee of £57.50 and thereafter five instalments of £8.70; or
  an issue fee of £55.10 and thereafter five instalments of £9.18; or
  an issue fee of £53.80 and thereafter five instalments of £9.44; or
  an issue fee of £50.50 and thereafter five instalments of £10.10; or
  an issue fee of £49.35 and thereafter five instalments of £10.33; or
  an issue fee of £44.90 and thereafter five instalments of £11.22; or
  an issue fee of £43.95 and thereafter five instalments of £11.41; or
  an issue fee of £37.90 and thereafter five instalments of £12.62; or
  an issue fee of £37.20 and thereafter five instalments of £12.76; or
  an issue fee of £28.90 and thereafter five instalments of £14.42; or
  an issue fee of £28.50 and thereafter five instalments of £14.50; or
  an issue fee of £16.85 and thereafter five instalments of £16.83; or
  an issue fee of £20.20 and thereafter four instalments of £20.20; or
  an issue fee of £25.25 and thereafter three instalments of £25.25; or
  an issue fee of £33.68 and thereafter two instalments of £33.66.
  In each case the first instalment shall be payable within the period of one month beginning immediately after the issue of the licence and the second and, where applicable the third, fourth and fifth within the periods of two, three, four and five months respectively beginning immediately after that issue.”
