The Medical Devices (Consultation Requirements) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 622

FEES AND CHARGES

The Medical Devices (Consultation Requirements) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996

Made

6th March 1996

Laid before Parliament

7th March 1996

Coming into force

1st April 1996

The Secretary of State for Health, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 56(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1973(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Devices (Consultation Requirements) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Medical Devices (Consultation Requirements) (Fees) Regulations 1995(2).

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (fees)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “£2,500” substitute “£2,125”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b) for “£7,000” substitute “£5,950”;

(c) in paragraph (2)(a) for “£625” substitute “£530”;

(d) in paragraph (2)(b) for “£1,750” substitute “£1,485”;

(e) in paragraph (3)(a) for “£2,500” substitute “£2,125”;

(f) in paragraph (3)(b) for “£7,000” substitute “£5,950”;

(g) in paragraph (4)(a) for “£625” substitute “£530”;

(h) in paragraph (4)(b) for “£1,750” substitute “£1,485”;

(i) in paragraph (5)(a) for “£32,000” substitute “£27,200”;

(j) in paragraph (5)(b) for “£8,000” substitute “£6,800”.

Stephen Dorrell

Secretary of State for Health

28th February 1996

We consent,

Simon Burns

Michael Bates

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

6th March 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Medical Devices (Consultation Requirements) (Fees) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations prescribe the fees which are payable where a notified body consults the competent body in accordance with Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 3 of the principal Regulations by reducing the amounts of all the fees specified in that regulation. Therefore an assessment of the cost to business of complying with these Regulations has not been made.

(1)

1973 c. 51.

(2)

S.I. 1995/449.