Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999
5. Immediately after regulation 16 (procedure relating to the withdrawal of approvals) there shall be inserted the following regulation –
“Fees
16A.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), (5), (6) and (7), an eligible person who applies to the competent body under regulation 12 or 14 to be approved as an intermediary who may exercise an intermediary activity in Northern Ireland shall –
(a)pay the relevant fee to the competent body; and
(b)reimburse the competent body the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.
(2) Any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a) shall be payable at the time the application is submitted to the competent body.
(3) Any reimbursement due under paragraph (1)(b) shall be payable to the competent body on demand.
(4) In relation to any application under regulation 12 or 14, the competent body need not –
(a)take any step specified in regulation 13(1) or (3) until the relevant fee has been paid to it; or
(b)take any step specified in regulation 13(3) until, in accordance with paragraph (1)(b), it has been reimbursed the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.
(5) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 12 seeking approval as a person who may exercise more than one intermediary activity, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee.
(6) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 14 seeking approval as a person who may exercise more than one new intermediary activity, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee.
(7) Any fee payable pursuant to paragraph (5) or (6) shall be treated, for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4)(a), as included among any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a).
(8) In this regulation “relevant fee” means the fee specified in Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 1A which is opposite to the reference in Column 1 of that Part to the application of the kind being made by the applicant.”.