Federal Ministry of Communications Decree No. 13 / 1974 Coll.
Decree of the Federal Ministry of Communications issuing the Radio and Television Regulations
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Effective from 01.04.1974
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DECLARATION
Federal Ministry of Communications
of 13 February 1974
issuing the Radio and Television Regulations
The Federal Ministry of Communications provides pursuant to § 22 of Act No. 110 / 1964 Coll., on Telecommunications, in agreement with the Czechoslovak Radio and Czechoslovak Television:
Radio and television receivers
1. Radio receiver means telecommunications equipment intended to receive and reproduce radio programmes distributed by radio transmitters (1)
2. Television means telecommunications equipment designed to receive and reproduce television programmes distributed by television transmitters.
3. Telecommunications equipment connected in one unit and intended for the reception and reproduction of radio and television programmes shall be considered as both a radio and a television receiver.
4. The equipment referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 shall be considered as radio and, where appropriate, television receivers regardless of whether they are powered by electricity from a network or from a battery.
5. Communicating receivers and other receivers used for special purposes are not considered as radio or television receivers, even if reception of radio or television programmes is permitted.
Records of radio and television receivers
1. The owner of both the radio receiver and the television receiver (hereinafter referred to as the "receiver") is obliged to register both the radio receiver and the television receiver in his delivery post. If the owner has entrusted the use of the receiver to another person or organisation (s), the user must register it, with the exception of the receivers borrowed from authorised industrial goods rental companies.
2. If a citizen has registered one radio receiver or one television receiver, he or she may use two or more radio or television receivers in and outside his or her apartment on the basis of a certificate issued for the registration of a receiver with members of his or her household. However, a separate application for registration and the obligation to pay a fee shall be subject to radio and television receivers permanently established and operated in a means of transport.
3. Organisations are required to register all radio and television receivers which they use in their office, business, operating and production rooms and beyond. This also applies to receivers intended for lending in authorised rental companies of industrial goods.
4. Records shall not be subject to receivers:
(a) the organization of connections, Czechoslovak Radio and Czechoslovak Television, serving service purposes and for the control of radio or television broadcasting,
(b) the military authorities, the National Security Corps, the armies and departments of the Ministry of Interior and the corrigendum college used for military or security purposes;
(c) manufactured, repaired or sold by an approved organisation;
(d) representative offices and missions of foreign States in the CSSR and their personnel, provided that they are not Czechoslovak nationals, provided that they are reciprocal,
(e) used by foreign nationals if their stay in CSSR does not exceed 3 months.
Applications for Receiver Records and Certificate of Registration
1. The owner or, where applicable, the user (hereinafter referred to as "the participant") shall enter the receiver for registration within 15 days of the date on which it was acquired. The receiver shall be logged on to the prescribed form, which shall be issued to it by mail, or, when buying or renting, by the seller or, where applicable, by the leasing organisation. The application shall be submitted to the post office or, where appropriate, to the postal carrier or to the mailbox.
2. For the registration of receivers and the collection of fees, the delivery post in whose district the participant is resident shall be the permanent place of residence.
3. Upon check-in, the post shall issue a receipt of the receipt to the participant.
4. Receiver registration confirmation shall be valid only for the participant to whom the application is made.
Change reporting
The participant shall immediately notify the change of permanent residence or registered office of the relevant delivery post and pay any fees due. The post office shall indicate this change in the receipt's registration certificate. The same applies when changing the name of the organisation.
Technical and operational conditions
1. Receivers, their antennas and connection lines of reproductive equipment must be set up and used in such a way that other telecommunications equipment is not harmful.
2. A participant whose radio or television reception is cancelled may, directly or through any post office, request the relevant branch of the Radio Communications Administration in Prague or the Radio Communications Administration in Bratislava, implementing radio communications protection to identify the source of harmful interference and issue a binding order to eliminate the cause of interference.
3. Communication organisations are not obliged to detect and eliminate defects arising from the fact that the receiving facility of the complaining participant does not comply with the Czechoslovak state standards and other generally binding rules.
4. The receiver can only be used in such a way that too loud reproduction, especially in nature, in public means of transport and at night does not disturb the peace of the fellow citizens, unless reproduction is prohibited by specific regulations at all.
Uncheck of the receiver from the register
1. A participant who ceases to use a receiver registered for registration may withdraw it from the register on a form requested from the post office, stating the reasons for the uncheck (impossibility of repair, destruction of the receiver, etc.). Upon check-out, the participant shall be obliged to pay the fee for the whole month in which the receiver has checked out and return the receipt to the post office; if it is unable to submit a certificate of registration, it shall notify the post office in writing. The mail will confirm receipt of the check-out.
2. When the receiver is checked out from the register, the previous participant shall notify the post office of the measures taken to prevent unauthorised use of the receiver or to request the post office to seal the receiver's cargo.
3. If a participant dies or a participant organisation dies, the household member or the legal successor of the organisation shall cancel the receipt from the register or notify the post office of the change of participant. In doing so, the post office shall submit a receipt of registration.
Receiver fees
1. For each receiver subject to registration, the participant shall pay the payment.2)
2. A participant who does not submit an application to register a receiver within the time limit laid down in Article 3 (1) of this Order shall pay the fees due in accordance with paragraph 1 for the period during which the receiver has not been registered. 1. If it is not possible to accurately determine the duration of the unauthorized use of the receiver, the participant shall be obliged to pay a flat-rate refund of 360 CZK for the radio and 900 CZK for the television.
3. The service authorities shall enforce due radio and television charges by administrative execution on the basis of a statement of the telecommunications charges due.
Maturity of fees and method of payment
1. The fee referred to in Article 7 (1) shall be collected in advance, payable on the first day of each month and paid directly at the post office or via the postal carrier. If the fees are part of the population's concentrated collection of payments, they shall be paid together with other monthly payments of the collection.
2. A participant who enters the receiver for registration in the first half of the month (i.e. up to and including the 15th day) shall be required to pay at the same time a fee for both the current and the following months; if the receiver is registered in the second half of the month (starting on the 16th day), he shall pay the fee immediately for the following month.
3. The obligation to pay the fee shall end with the end of the month in which the registration has been cancelled or cancelled. Fees paid in advance shall be returned to the authorised person within three months of the cancellation of the registration.
Full and partial exemption from fees
1. At their request, participants may be granted total or partial exemption from the radio or television charge, or both, if their annual income and the income of members of their household do not exceed the amounts referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3.
2. Full exemption may be granted to participants,
(a) whose net annual income does not exceed CZK 5760 and 10 260 for spouses;
(b) who still need foreign treatment or care for a physical defect or illness and whose annual income is not more than twice the amounts referred to in (a), i.e. 11 520 CZK and 20 520 CZK for spouses.
3. In the case of partial exemption, a radio fee of 5 CZK is paid, a television fee of 15 CZK. Partial exemption may be granted to participants
(a) to single pensioners whose pension, together with other net income, does not exceed 11 400 CZK per year;
(b) to spouses, at least one of whom is a pensioner, where the sum of their pensions and other net income does not exceed the sum of CZK 19 200 per year.
4. Income within the meaning of Act No. 121 / 1975 Coll., on social security (i.e. education, increase of pension for helplessness, additional social security contributions, work income from an activity that does not last for more than 60 days in a calendar year, income of a pensioner or his family member over 70 years) shall not be included in the amounts applicable for granting total exemption (paragraph 2) or partial exemption (paragraph 3).
Submission of an exemption application
1. Requests for exemption pursuant to Article 9 (2) or (3) shall be made by the participant on a form issued to him by the tenderer. the application must include details of the participant's income and the income of the members of his household certified by the employer or by post paying the pension, or include evidence of other circumstances justifying the exemption (medical certificate, recommendation of the Czech association of disabled persons or association of Slovak disabled persons).
2. A Participant shall undertake, at the time of the request, to report to the Post Office any circumstances affecting the duration or type of exemption and to declare that it is aware of the consequences which would arise from the disclosure of false or incorrect information in the application.
3. Applications shall be decided by the competent district management or an organisation assimilated to it; the appeal against those decisions shall be decided definitively by the authority superior to the authority which decided the case.
Exemption card
If the authority referred to in Paragraph 10 (3) decides that the participant is exempted in whole or in part from the fees, it shall issue a full or partial exemption card (hereinafter referred to as "the licence ') and indicate the period for which the exemption is granted. That period shall be fixed according to the circumstances of the individual case but shall not exceed three years. If the owner of the licence demonstrates before its expiry that the conditions for granting the exemption have not changed, the authority which decided to grant the exemption may extend the validity of the licence.
Exemptions
1. The exemption shall expire:
(a) the expiry of the period for which it was granted;
(b) by changing the conditions under which it was granted (Sections 9 (2) and (3));
(c) by a final decision of the authority referred to in Article 10 (3), in particular where it is subsequently apparent that the exemption was granted on the basis of false or incorrect data,
(d) the death of the owner of the licence.
2. If the participant does not declare the termination of the conditions applicable to the granting of the exemption, the participant shall be obliged to pay full fees for the period during which it did not fulfil the conditions for the exemption.
Transitional provisions
1. Formerly issued authorisations for the establishment and operation of radio and television stations shall be considered as confirmation of the recording of receivers under this Decree.
2. The total or partial exemption from the radio or television charge granted pursuant to the former rules shall cease to be the end of the period for which it was granted.
Repeal
They shall be deleted:
1. Decree No. 357 / 1951 of the Ministry of Information and Information. I. (No 387 / 1951 of the Ú. v.), which issues the Radio Regulations;
2. Decree of the Ministry of Information and Information No 358 / 1951 Ú. l. I. (No 388 / 1951 Ú. v.), which issues the Radio Charges Regulations;
3. Decree of the Ministry of Communications No 85 / 1954 Ú. l. (No 105 / 1954 Ú. v.) amending and supplementing the Radio Regulations;
4. Decree of the Ministry of Communications No 86 / 1954 Ú. l. (No 106 / 1954 Ú. v.), which amends and complements the radio charging rules;
5. Decree of the Ministry of Communications No 177 / 1958 Ú. l. (Ú. v.), supplementing the Radio Charges Regulations;
6. Measures by the Federal Postal and Telecommunications Committee No 167 / 1969 of the VPT as regards the amendment of the monthly radio and television charge;
7. Measures taken by the Federal Ministry of Communications No 29 / 1972 of the VFMS only in respect of changes to the Radio Regulations.
Efficacy
This Decree shall take effect on 1 April 1974.
Minister:
Chalupa v. r.
1) The radio receiver is not a participating radio station set up by wire pursuant to Decree No. 146 / 1954 Ú. l. (No. 172 / 1954 Ú. v.), which issues the radio order by wire.
2) The amount of the radio and television charges (monthly 10 CZK for radio and 25 CZK for television) was determined by the Czech Price Office No 95 / 42 / 69 of 28.5.1969 and by Supplement No 120 / 42 / 69 of 13.6.1969 and by the Slovak Price Office No 337 / 69 of 26.5.1969 and Supplement No 423 / 69 with effect from 1.7.1969.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Federal Ministry of Communications No. 13 / 1974 Coll. |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 19.02.1974 |
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| Effective from | 01.04.1974 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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