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The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2001

UK Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 2626 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
19 July 2001
In force from
20 August 2001
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Firearms, offensive weapons, explosives and poisons
Made under
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations update and replace the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2482 as amended by S.I. 2000/2688 and 2000/2831). They fix or determine the fees payable by an applicant to the Health and Safety Executive in respect of an application made for— an approval under mines and quarries legislation (regulation 2 and Schedule 1); an approval of certain respiratory protective equipment (regulation 3 and Schedule 2); an approval of plant or equipment under the Agriculture (Tractor Cabs) Regulations 1974 (regulation 4 and Schedule 3); an approval of a scheme or programme under the Freight Containers (Safety Convention) Regulations 1984 (regulation 5 and Schedule 4); a licence under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 (regulation 6 and Schedule 5); an approval of dosimetry services or type approval of apparatus under the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 (regulation 9 and Schedule 8); an approval, authorisation or licence etc. under the Explosives Act 1875 and certain instruments thereunder, for a licence under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 or for the classification of an article, substance, combination or unit load under the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983 (regulation 10 and Schedule 9); an explosives licence under Part IX of the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987 (regulation 12 and Schedule 10); an approval under the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (Driver Training) Regulations 1996 (regulation 14 and Schedule 12); an approval under the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 (regulation 23 and Schedule 19); and in respect of— a vocational training certificate under the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (Driver Training) Regulations 1996 (regulation 13 and Schedule 11); a vocational training certifcate undert the Transport of Dangerous Goods (Safety Advisers) Regulations 1999 (regulation 15 and Schedule 13); a notification or application under the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 (regulation 17 and Schedule 14); a notification or application under the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1993 (regulation 18 and Schedule 15). The Regulations fix or determine the fees payable by specified persons in the offshore rail and gas industries for the performance by the Executive of the functions specified in those provisions (regulations 19 to 22 and Schedules 16 to 18). The Regulations update fees to be paid in respect of medical examinations and surveillance by an employment medical adviser which are required under certain of the relevant statutory provisions (regulations 7 and 8 and Schedules 6 and 7). The Regulations update maximum fees which may be charged under the Explosives Act 1875, the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 and the Petroleum (Transfer of Licences) Act 1936 (regulation 10(2) and Schedule 9, Part II). The increase in the fees referred to under Parts I, III and IV of Schedule 9 relating to applications for a factory or magazine licence, any amendment to such a licence, the original approval of premises in which acetylene is to be manufactured or kept, any amendment to such an approval, the original approval of premises in which acetylene is compressed and any amendment to such an approval, includes an amount for the reasonable cost of travelling and subsistence by members of the Executive’s staff in connection with an inspection of the relevant premises. There is no longer any separate provision relating to payment of such travelling and subsistence costs. The fee to be paid under regulation 15 and Schedule 13 (vocational training certificates under the Transport of Dangerous Goods (Safety Advisers) Regulations 1999) is no longer of a fixed amount, but is now to be the reasonable cost to the Secretary of State or the person designated by him for the purpose of issuing vocational training certificates of having the work carried out. The former rebate system in respect of notifications under the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1993, whereby an amount of rebate was paid where an adequate draft risk assessment was included, is replaced by one whereby an additional fee is to be paid if the risk assessment is not adequate in the opinion of the Executive (regulation 18 and Schedule 15). The new fees compared with those fixed by or determined under the previous fee-charging provisions are as follows: where surveillance is confined to examination of, and making entries in, records in other cases for laboratory tests where these are carried out for a clinical medical examination where this is carried out Bio-assay or in-vivo monitoring or air sampling for each additional technique quantity of the new substance equal to or more than 100 kg (regulation 6(1)) quantity of the new substance up to 100 kg (regulation 6(2))

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