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(2F) An issue fee is payable on the issue date. 

(2G) Further instalments are payable at monthly intervals with the first being payable on the date which is the last day of the period of one month beginning with the day immediately following the issue date. 

(2H) The number of further instalments is determined by the number of complete months in the period beginning with the date on which the first instalment falls due and ending with the expiry date. 

(2I) The amounts of the issue fee and of each further instalment are determined according to the number of further instalments payable as set out in Table 2. 

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10th February 2020 

We consent: 

11th February 2020 

## (This note is not part of the Regulations) 

Rebecca Harris Iain Stewart Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 

## EXPLANATORY NOTE 

Morgan of Cotes Secretary of State Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 

These Regulations amend the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/692) to make provision for a form of TV licence to be known as a “simple payment plan licence (not black and white only)” (a “simple payment licence”). The 2004 Regulations were amended by the Communications (Television Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (SI 2018/339) to trial these types of licence, on a temporary basis, permitting the TV licence fee to be paid for in evenly spread monthly or fortnightly instalments, in specified circumstances. 

These Regulations bring the temporary scheme into ongoing operation by removing the provisions which time limit the temporary scheme (regulation 4(b)). These Regulations also make some changes to the conditions of the scheme. For example the definition of a “debt advice charity” has been widened (regulation 4(e)). In addition, a new “Circumstance D” has been included for the 

