{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-regulations-2002/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1700",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-charges-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Concessionary licence charges",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a relevant licence is granted to an applicant, or held by a licensee, which—\n(a) is a charity; and\n(b) has as its object the safety of human life in an emergency, such applicant or licensee being hereinafter referred to as “a qualifying charity”.\n(2) The sum to be paid by a qualifying charity to the Secretary of State under section 1 of the 1998 Act on the issue or renewal of a relevant licence, and at each of the prescribed times (if any), shall be one half of the prescribed sum. Where the sum so payable to the Secretary of State represents a fraction of a whole pound sterling then the sum payable by the qualifying charity shall be rounded up to the nearest whole pound sterling.\n(3) In this regulation—\n“charity” means a person who—\n(a) being subject to the laws of England and Wales, or Scotland, or Northern Ireland, is a charity within the meaning of section 506(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;\n(b) being subject to the laws of the Isle of Man, is registered as a charity under the Charities Registration Act 1989;\n(c) being subject to the laws of Guernsey, is a member for the time being of the Association of Guernsey Charities; or\n(d) being subject to the laws of Jersey, is a member for the time being of the Association of Jersey Charities; and\n“relevant licence” means a licence of one of the following classes—\n(i) Coastal Station Radio;\n(ii) Commercial (5-Year) Ship Radio;\n(iii) Differential Global Positioning System;\n(iv) Maritime Navigational Aids and Radar;\n(v) National and Regional Private Business Radio;\n(vi) On-Site Private Business Radio for Hospital Paging and Emergency Speech Systems;\n(vii) On-Site Private Business Radio for Local Communications Systems;\n(viii) On-Site Private Business Radio for One-Way Paging and Speech Systems;\n(ix) On-Site Private Business Radio for Speech and Data Systems;\n(x) Private Business Radio IR2008 Data;\n(xi) Private Business Radio UK General;\n(xii) Private Mobile Radio (Standard);\n(xiii) Self-Select Private Business Radio;\n(xiv) Ship Portable Radio;\n(xv) Ship Radio;\n(xvi) Wide Area Private Business Radio for Distress Alarm Systems;\n(xvii) Wide Area Private Business Radio for One-Way Paging and Speech Systems; and\n(xviii) Wide Area Private Business Radio for Speech and Data Systems.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "An Act of Tynwald."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2983",
      "affecting_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (Channel Islands and the Isle of Man)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2984",
      "affecting_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1700/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:42.097423+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."
}