67D.    Communications licence conversions

 

(1)     Where existing licences referred to in Chapter 15 of the Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005), are converted to new licences in terms of section 93 of that Act, a licensee of an existing licence or licences is deemed to have disposed of the existing-

 

(a)     licence for an amount equal to the base cost of the licence; or

 

(b)     licences for an amount equal to the aggregate of the base cost of the licences,

 

on the date of the conversion.

 

(2)     The licensee of a new licence contemplated in subparagraph (1) –

 

(a)     is deemed to have acquired the new licence –

 

(i)      in the case where an existing licence is converted to a new licence, at a cost, recognised as such for the purposes of paragraph 20, equal to the expenditure incurred in respect of the existing licence;

 

(ii)     in the case where two or more existing licences are converted to a new licence, at a cost, recognised as such for the purposes of paragraph 20, equal to the aggregate of the expenditure incurred in respect of the existing licences; and

 

(iii)    in the case where an existing licence is converted to two or more new licences, at a cost, recognised as such for the purposes of paragraph 20, that bears to the expenditure incurred in respect of the existing licence the same ratio as the value of that new licence bears to the aggregate value of the new licences,

 

which cost must be treated as expenditure actually incurred by the licensee in respect of the new licence or licences for the purposes of paragraph 20; and

 

(b)     is deemed to have incurred the cost contemplated in item (a) on the day immediately after the conversion.