Broadcasting Authority (Amendment) Act, 1976

Annual amounts to be paid to Authority by Minister.

8.—The Minister, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, may pay to the Authority out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas—

(a) in respect of each financial year after the financial year ending on the 31st day of December, 1975, an amount equal to the total of the receipts in that year in respect of broadcasting licence fees less—

(i) any expenses certified by the Minister as having been incurred by him in that year in relation to the collection of those fees,

(ii) any expenses certified by the Minister as having been incurred by him in that year in respect of the performance of his functions under sections 12 or 12A of the Act of 1926 in relation to interfering with or injuriously affecting wireless telegraphy apparatus for receiving only, and

(iii) the amount of a grant or grants made by the Minister under section 18A of the Principal Act (inserted by section 4 of this Act), and

(b) in respect of each financial year after the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1974, an amount equal to the total of the receipts in that year in respect of wired broadcast relay licence fees less any expenses certified by the Minister as having been incurred by him in that year in relation to the collection of those fees.