[F1Fees associated with notifications and applications under the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001N.I.

9.(1) The fee specified in column 2 of Schedule 7 shall be payable by a notifier to the competent authority on each such notification or application under the 2001 Regulations as is referred to in the corresponding entry in column 1 of that Schedule.

(2) No fee shall be returned to a notifier where the competent authority returns a notification pursuant to regulation 14(7) of the 2001 Regulations or a notifier withdraws his notification pursuant to regulation 15(7) of the 2001 Regulations.

(3) In this regulation, “the 2001 Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) and “competent authority” has the same meaning as in those Regulations.]

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S.R. 2001 No. 295, to which the relevant amendment is S.R. 2003 No. 510, regulation 17 and Schedule 13