TUVALU

LICENCES ACT AMENDMENT ORDER

LN No. 2 of 2010

MADE UNDER SECTION 3(3) OF THE LICENCES ACT

COMMENCEMENT [1ST APRIL 2010] 

1 Citation 

This Order may be cited as the Licences Act Amendment Order and shall commence on the 1st April 2010. 

2 Order 

Schedules 1 and 2 of the Licences Act are hereby repealed and substituted with the following. 

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SCHEDULE

"SCHEDULE 1
(section 3(1))

NON-TRANSFERABLE LICENCES

 	ANNUAL FEE 	
Auctioneer 	$ 40 	
Block Brick maker 	$ 50 	
Commercial fisherman 	$ 100 	
Commission agent 	$ 40 	
Entertainment promoter (not required for traditional entertainment) 	$ 100 	
Hairdresser / Barber 	$ 20 	
Hawker 	$ 50 	
Insurance agent or company 	$ 500 	
Stalls 	$ 10 	
Supplier of local construction materials 
Thatch supplier 
Coconut timber supplier 	 
$ 10 
$ 50 	
DJ / Sound system / Band hire 

a For music bands that use electric musical instruments 

b For music bands that use local and acoustic music instruments 

c For DJs and sound systems hire  	 
 
$ 100 

$ 50 

$ 50  	
Fundraising Event Planner and Organiser (For planning and organising fundraising events such as, walkathons, raffle tickets, balls, bazaars, indoor games, concerts). 	

$ 20 	
Private Consultancy 	$ 100 	
Sign writer or Graphic designer 	$ 20 	
Lawn Mowing 	$ 20 	
Photography 	$ 50 	
Commercial dancing 	$ 50 	
Security Services 	$ 50 	
Building construction 	$ 100 	
Architect 	$ 100 	
Baker (for those who sell baked goods from a place other than where the goods were produced) 	
$ 50 	
 
SCHEDULE 2
(section 3(1) & 3 (2))

TRANSFERABLE LICENCES	
 	ANNUAL FEE 	
Bakery (for businesses that produce and sell baked goods from the place where the baked goods are produced) 	 
$ 100 	
Hotels, Boarding houses (includes Guest Houses) 

a For hotels 

b For boarding houses including guest houses 	 
 
$ 500 

$ 200 	
Bus operator 	$ 60 	
Commercial confectionery and tobacconist 	$ 10 	
Commercial industry 	$ 200 	
Commercial piggery 	$ 50 	
Commercial poultry farm 	$ 50 	
Construction Company 	$ 100 	
Keeping entertainment premises (not required for traditional entertainment)	$ 40 	
Keeping a shop or store 

a For wholesalers, main stores, supermarkets and their branches 

b For canteens and other small shops 	 
 
$ 200 

$ 50 	
Keeping scales commercially 	$ 10 	
Providing refreshment (including commercial teashops, milk bars, snack bars, cafés, selling ice-cream or ice blocks) 	
$ 30 	
Restaurant 	$ 100 	
Vehicle hire (including taxis, trailers, motorcycles, trucks, vans) 	$ 100 	
Equipment hire (including generator hire, washing machine hire, chainsaw hire) 	$ 60 	
Laundry 	$ 60 	
Mechanical workshop 	$ 100 	
Plumber and tinsmith 	$ 60 	
Video set / cassette hire 	$ 50 	
Heavy equipment hire 	$ 100 	
Coconut oil processing 	$ 20 	
Computing and photocopying 	$ 100 	
Internet café 	$ 100 	
Tour Operator 	$ 50 	
Kayak / Canoe hire 	$ 20 	
Bookshop and Stationery 	$ 50 	
Bars and Nightclubs 	$ 200 	
Real Estate 	$ 100 	
Fish Export Marketing 	$ 100 	
Repair shops 	$ 50 	
Printery 	$ 50 	
Cinema 	$ 50 	
Commercial Bingo 	$ 200 	
Tailors 	$ 50 	
Money Lending	$ 100	
Money transfer Agency	$ 100	
Boat hire	$ 50	
Firewood sales	$ 10	
Handicrafts	$ 50	
Shipping agency	$ 100	
Private Commercial Schools	$ 50	
Private Commercial Newspapers	$ 100	
Gas cylinder shop	$ 100	
Public Market	$ 100	

1. The fee for any activity in Schedule 1 and 2 is the maximum which may be imposed. 

2. Any such fee may be reduced for the area of a local government council (section 5(4)). 

3. Any person, persons or class of persons may be exempted from the payment in whole or in part of any such fee (proviso to section 3(1)). 

The exemption may be made by the Minister in response to representations from local government councils or any other person as to which person or persons should be exempted. As examples, payment might be partially exempted on grounds of old age or on the grounds that a business was mainly a family concern."