102 Telecommunications Act 2005 2005, No.20 (c) fees for the use of telecommunications numbers. (2) The fees provided for in subsection (1) shall not come into effect until assent by the Head of State, acting on the advice of Cabinet, of a regulation establishing the fees and related payment and administration procedures. (3) A regulation made under this section may provide that licence fees and fees for radio spectrum usage and telecommunications numbers shall be collected from all licensees taking into account the following principles. (a) such fees may be used to fund, in whole or in part, the responsibilities, functions and powers of the Regulator and the operations of the Office of the Regulator under this Act and other laws; (b) funding of the Regulator and the Office of the Regulator may be made indirectly, with fees payable in the first instance to the Treasury Fund, and then taken into account by the Ministry of Finance in funding the budget of the Regulator through the normal Government budgetary process; (c) fees shall be levied on different licensees and users of spectrum and numbers in an impartial and competitively neutral manner; and (d) licence fees may be based on a percentage of the revenues of licensees from the provision of their licenced telecommunications services. (4) Fees required to be paid under this section constitute a debt due to the Government and may recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction. 11. Appeal and Review of Orders of the Regulator-(1) An appeal from an order of the Regulator may be made only: (a) on any question of law; and (b) to the Supreme Court with the leave of the Court. (2) An application for leave to appeal shall be made within thirty days after the date of the order appealed from. (3) An appeal shall be brought within sixty days after the day on which leave to appeal is granted.

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