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Broadcasting Act, 1999 (Act No. 4 of 1999)

Regulations

Regulations regarding Television Licence Fees

Definitions and Interpretation (Regs 1-2)

 

1. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates:

 

"audited statement"

means a statement that is substantially in the form of Annexure "C";

 

"authorised agent"

means a person appointed by the Corporation to determine whether a television set or a denatured apparatus is capable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service;

 

"business licence"

means the category of television licence which confers upon a licence holder the right to use a television set in connection with a business or, in or at any government department or administration in the national, provincial or local sphere of government;

 

"concessionary domestic licence"

means the category of television licence provided for in regulations 5 and 6;

 

"dealer licence"

means the category of television licence which confers upon a licence holder the right to use a television set in connection with his or her business as a dealer at a place specified in that licence, for the purposes of demonstrating or displaying the television set to a prospective buyer;

 

"denatured apparatus"

means an apparatus which is originally designed to be capable of receiving a television broadcasting service which has been certified in writing by an authorised agent to be incapable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service;

 

"domestic licence"

means the category of television licence which confers upon a user of a television set or the owner or occupier of the residential premises in which the television set is being used, the right to use such a television set at those premises only;

 

"family members of the holder of a domestic licence"

means all natural persons who are:—

(a) permanently resident with such holder; and
(b) in fact dependent on such holder; and
(c) owed a legal duty of support by such holder.

 

"lessor licence"

means the category of television licence which confers upon a licence holder the right to lease a television set to any person for use by that person;

 

"licence holder"

means a person to whom a television licence has been issued by me Corporation and "holder" has a corresponding meaning;

 

"licensing year"

means the one year period commencing on the date when the television licence fee becomes due and payable according to the Corporation's records;

 

"mobile television licence"

means the category of television licence which confers upon a licence holder the right to use a television set in any vehicle, caravan, mobile home, vessel or aircraft used for private purposes;

 

"partner"

means a person contemplated in Annexure "D";

 

"public school"

means a public school in terms of the South African Schools Act, 1996 (Act No. 84 of 1996);

 

"residential premises"

means any house, flat, room, caravan, vessel, vehicle, building or structure which is occupied by a person as his or her residence, whether permanently or temporarily;

 

"television licence fee"

means a fee provided for in Annexure A;

 

"television set"

has the meaning assigned to it in Section 1(1) of the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act, 1993 (Act No. 153 of 1993) and includes computers fitted with electronic broadcast cards (television tuner cards) and the electronic broadcast cards themselves;

 

"the Act"

means the Broadcasting Act, 1999 (Act No. 4 of 1999);

 

"Value Added Tax"

means value added tax in terms of the Value Added Tax Act, 1991 (Act No. 89 of 1991);

 

"written summary"

means a statement that is substantially in the form of Annexure E.

 

2. In these regulations, unless the context indicates otherwise:—
2.1 words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa;
2.2 words referring to one gender shall include the other gender and vice versa.