The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Fees) Regulations 1998

regulation 3

SCHEDULE 2 FEES FOR EEC INITIAL VERIFICATION OF CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS

1.  Where regulation 13(9) of the 1998 principal Regulations applies (EEC initial verification), the fee shall be—

(a) an amount in respect of any time calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour (a period of 7½ minutes being rounded up to a quarter of an hour) taking to conduct the initial verification at the rate of £65.00 per hour, due and payable as indicated in paragraph 3 below; and

(b) the amount of additional expenses, if any, incurred by or occasioned to the Secretary of State by reason of any part of the initial verification taking place at a place other than the National Weights and Measures Laboratory of the Department of Trade and Industry, due and payable as indicated in paragraph 3 below.

2.  Where regulation 7 of the Alcoholometers and Alcohol Hydrometers (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1977(1) applies (initial verification) there shall be a fixed fee of £52.00, payable as indicated in paragraphs 3 and 4 below.

3.  Subject to paragraph 4 below, the amounts referred to in paragraph 1(a) and (b) above shall be due and payable on the service on the applicant of an invoice from the Secretary of State monthly in arrears.

4.  On completion of the initial verification, the Secretary of State shall serve an invoice on the applicant for the amount of the fees, together with notification that the initial verification has been completed, and the amount shall, before notification of the result, be due and payable to the Secretary of State.

(1)

S.I. 1977/1753, amended by S.I. 1988/1128.