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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 September 1927, Page 3

LISTENERS, NOTE!

NEW REGULATIONS IMPORTANT CHANGES. Some important amendments to the regulations governing the licensing 0 radio receiving, amateur transmitting and receiving, and experimental radio atations were published in the latest ie? and ee? ; classes of may be granted: (a) Receiving station li-censes-(i) Ordinary; (ii) special; (iti) temporary. (b) Amateur transmitting aud receiving station license. (c) Hsperimental station licenses. | . In the case of radio receiving in hotels, restaurants, places of amusement, or other places where the reception of radio communications is intended for a number of people, the liccnse will be a special receiving station liceuse. . In the case of radio recciving stations at showgrounds, exhibitions, and other slaces of a like nature, where the station is to be overated for a limited time, the license will be a temporary receiving station license. Licenses for radio stations to be erected and operated by hospitals, schools, colleges, institutes, societies, and like bodies, shall, in accordance with the objects in view, be classified by the Minister in accordance with this regulation. Portable or mobile stations are to be classified by the Minister, and will be subject to such additional conditions regarding field of operation, and the ‘ike, as the Minister may deem it necessary to impose. In the event of a radio station licensed under these regulations being dismattled, or of a change being made in its location, the lcensee shall, within seven days thereafter, notify the postmaster at the nearest postal moncyorder office, in writing, accordingly. Where a radio station is to be erected and operated for a limited time the Minister may, at the written request of any person, association, or corporation, grant a temporary license in writing, authorising for a period to be deter-| mined by the Minister, the operations of such station in accordance with these regulations, and upon whatever terms, in addilion to these regulations, the Minister deems desirable. ‘The fees for such temporary licenses ‘wiil be those prescribed by these regulations for temporary receiving station licenses. , Exeept where otherwise authorised by the Minister, every license, other than a temporary receiving station license, shall be in force from the date of grantmg until March 51 follewing, and imay he renewed from year to vear, ° Fees for Licenses. The license or renewal fees for each of the several classes of radio stations are as follow, parable in advance: (a) Vor a receiving station licensefa) Ordinary, £1 106s. per annum; (ii) special, £5 per annum; (iii) temporary, Ws. per weels. . (b} For an amateur transmitting and receiving station license, £2 Qs. per annua, (c) Tor an experimental station 1icense, £2 2s, per annum, "he fee for the first year, or portion thereof, must acccmpany the applican. Tor a period of less than one year the fee will be: (a) Tor a receiving station license-({} ordinary, 2s, Gd. ver month, with a minimuni of 7s. 6d. 3 fil) special, 85. 4d. per month, with a muumum of £1 5s.; (iii) temporary, 10s. for each week of seven days. Tor a Period of less than seven days the fee will be 10s. (bj) Vor an amateur tratismitting and receiving station license, 4s. 6d. per month, with a minimum of 10s. 6d. (c} Vor an experimental station license, 8s. ¢d, per nionth, with a minimum of 10s. 6d. f, in the case of renewals, payment of the above mentioned fees be not made ou or before the due date, the tcense will automatically lapse. the fee for_a duplicate i ¢ t Y copy of ecnse be 3s,