The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1994

Fees payable under the mines and quarries provisions

2.—(1) A fee shall be payable by the applicant to the Health and Safety Executive for an original approval, an amendment of approval or a renewal of approval under any of the mines and quarries provisions.

(2) The fee payable under paragraph (1) for each description of plant, apparatus, substance and in any other case set out in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 shall be respectively that specified in the corresponding entry in column 2, 3 or 4 of that Part and shall be payable on making the application for approval, or, where any such entry specifies a fee as an amount per hour worked, the fee so calculated shall be payable prior to the notification of the result of the application.

(3) Where the Executive requires testing to be carried out by its staff to decide whether approval can be granted, a fee shall be payable to the Executive by the applicant on the issue by the Executive of its determination in respect of the application for the approval as described below —

(a) in the case of explosives and detonators, for each test specified in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 1, the fee shall be that specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part;

(b) in any other case, the fee shall be determined under Part III of Schedule 1.