statutory licence

Some examples are:(1) Statutory licences.

In the words of A dictionary of American and English law, "Any one may take on himself whatever surname or as many surnames as he pleases, without statutory licence".

The BBC, which cannot collect statutory licence fees from European viewers, has been transmitting 'scrambled' programmes on the basis that it has a monopoly on the right to authorise the making and selling of the necessary 'unscrambling'decoders.

It has been suggested that it is somewhat more sympathetic to rights owner interests rather than user interests; for instance, by ruling to increase royalty rates under the Part VB Educational Statutory licence without a submission to this effect from either party in c.2003.

While statutory licences have sometimes been equated with proprietary interests, the removal of rights enjoyed under a statutory licence does not typically constitute an acquisition of property within section 51(xxxi), as licence conditions are inherently susceptible to change.

In this light the at-risk status of the sample is further indicated by the fact that 91 per cent of the sample were subject to Schedule 11, with only six per cent being on ordinary probation and three per cent on statutory licence following release from custody, that is, parole and youth custody licence.