{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1885",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1995 are hereby amended as follows:\n(a) in regulation 3(4), for sub-paragraphs (a), (d) and (f) there shall be substituted respectively the following sub-paragraphs:\n“(a) “area” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee may use in an area with a population coverage of 200,000 individuals or more but below 2 million individuals;”;\n“(d) “premium case” means a case where at the applicant’s request such licence is granted or varied outside office hours; and for the purposes of this definition “office hours” means 09.00 to 17.00 hours from Monday to Friday other than on a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales;”; and\n“(f) “regional” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee is authorised to use in an area with a population coverage of 2 million individuals or more but below 12 million individuals;”;\n(b) in regulation 3(4), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs:\n“(ea) “programme making” includes the making of a programme for broadcast, the making of a film, presentation, advertisement or audio or video tape, and the staging or performance of an entertainment, sporting or other public event;”;\n“(eb) “programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station;”; and\n“(ga) “restricted service programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station where the transmission is for a period not exceeding thirty consecutive days;”;\n(c) in regulation 4(2), the words “such day not being a time at which the licence falls to be renewed,” shall be inserted between the words “as the case may be),” and the words “shall be the prescribed time”; and\n(d) in Schedule 4, the provisions in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be substituted for the provisions relating to the categories headed “Broadcasting and Ancillary Services” and “Hobby Radio”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1331, as amended by S.I. 1996/1464 and S.I. 1997/1006."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1885/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:59:51.958184+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}