F115A Fees and charges.
(1)
The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, make and from time to time revise, a scheme prescribing—
(a)
fees payable in respect of applications for registration under section one or section three of this Act or an authorisation under section six or section seven of this Act;
(b)
fees payable in respect of the variation of the registration under section five of this Act or, as the case may be, in respect of the variation of the authorisation under section eight of this Act;
(c)
charges payable by a person to whom such a registration relates or to whom such an authorisation has been granted in respect of the subsistence of that registration or authorisation;
and it shall be a condition of any such registration or authorisation that any applicable prescribed charge is paid in accordance with that scheme.
(2)
The power to make and revise a scheme under this section, so far as it relates to, or to applications for, authorisations under section six of this Act which may only be granted by the chief inspector and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall not be exercisable without the consent of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(3)
A scheme under this section may, in particular—
(a)
provide for different fees or charges to be payable in different cases or circumstances; and
(b)
provide for the times at which and the manner in which payments are to be made;
and a scheme may make such incidental, supplementary and transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate and different schemes may be made and revised for different areas.
(4)
The Secretary of State shall so frame a scheme under this section as to secure, so far as practicable, that the amounts payable under it are sufficient, taking one financial year with another, to cover the expenditure of the chief inspector and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercising or performing their functions under this Act in relation to registrations and authorisations.
(5)
The Secretary of State shall, on making or revising a scheme under this section, lay a copy of the scheme or of the revisions before each House of Parliament.