The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) (Amendment) and Gas Safety (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2024

Provisions supplementary to regulations 8(3A), 9, 11 and 14 to 16 of the Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022

13.  In regulation 17 (provisions supplementary to regulations 8(3A) and 14 to 16)—

(a) in the heading, after “8(3A)” insert “, 9, 11”;

(b) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), after “regulations 8(3A)” insert “, 9(1), (8) and (10), 11(1) and (3)”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), for “or the ONR” substitute “, the ONR, the acetylene licensing authority or the appropriate authority”;

(iii) omit paragraph (b) and the “and” immediately preceding it;

(c) in paragraph (2), after “8(3A)” insert “, 9(1), (8) and (10), 11(1) and (3)”;

(d) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) Where a fee is payable under any of regulations 8(3A), 9(1), (8) and (10), 11(1) and (3) and 14 to 16, the Executive, the ONR, the acetylene licensing authority or the appropriate authority, as the case may be, must send or give to the person who must pay the fee an invoice which—

(a) includes a statement of the work done and the costs incurred, and

(b) specifies the period to which that statement relates.

(2B) Any fee referred to in regulations 8(3A), 9(10), 11(3) and 14 to 16 above is payable within 30 days from the date of the invoice that the Executive, the ONR, the acetylene licensing authority or the appropriate authority has sent or given to the person who must pay that fee.”;

(e) in paragraph (7), after “regulations” insert “9(11), 11(4) and”;

(f) for paragraph (9), substitute—

“(9) For the purposes of this regulation—

“acetylene licensing authority” has the same meaning given in regulation 9;

“appropriate authority” has the same meaning given in regulation 11;

“nuclear provisions” has the same meaning given in regulation 16.”.