Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007

Regulations prescribing fees.

7.— (1) Every licence under the Act of 1960, the Act of 1988, the Act of 1990 and this Act shall be issued on payment of such fees as may be prescribed by the Commission for Communications Regulation, with the consent of the Minister, in regulations made under this section.

(2) Regulations made under this section may prescribe in relation to all such licences or any particular class or classes of such licences—

(a) the fees to be paid on the grant or renewal of such licences, and

(b) the time and manner at and in which such fees are to be paid.

(3) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if either such House shall, within twenty one days on which either such House has sat next after the regulation was laid before such Houses, pass a resolution annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.