Radio-communication (Amendment) Regulations 1999

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 21 May 1999

No. S 227

Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act

(Chapter 323)

Radio-communication (Amendment)
Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 131 of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Radio-communication (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 21st May 1999.

Amendment of regulation 23

2. Regulation 23 of the Radio-communication Regulations (Rg 3) is amended by deleting paragraph (4) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(4) The Authority may, in the interest of spectrum economy and after considering the re-usability of a frequency, the area of coverage involved and the period of use of an assigned frequency, reduce the application and processing fees payable under paragraph (2) or the annual fee payable under paragraph (3) or both.”.

Amendment of Second Schedule

3. The Second Schedule to the Radio-communication Regulations is amended by deleting item 1 of Part III and substituting the following item:

“

1. Frequencies for Networks and Systems —

(a) Exclusive Use

(i) Bandwidth of less than 1 MHz

$300 per 25 kHz of occupied bandwidth or part thereof

(ii) Bandwidth of 1 MHz or more

$12,000 for the first MHz of occupied bandwidth and $300 per subsequent MHz of occupied bandwidth or part thereof

(b) Shared Use

(i) Bandwidth of less than 300 kHz

$300 per 25 kHz of occupied bandwidth or part thereof

(ii) Bandwidth of 300 kHz or more but less than 20 MHz

$3,500

(iii) Bandwidth of 20 MHz or more

$6,200

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 144/96; S 161/97; S 615/98]

Made this 19th day of May 1999.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairman,
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.

[MINCOM TA. 271.23.01.0.8; AG/LEG/SL/323/97/1 Vol. 1]

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