Fees—inspection of data
7.—(1) Subject to regulations 18, 19 and 20, where a certificate to which this paragraph applies has been issued in relation to a vehicle or vehicle part and in consequence of an alteration in any design specification an applicant requires a further certificate, but the alteration is not so extensive as to require a further examination of any vehicle or any vehicle part and compliance with the relevant approval requirements can be determined on an inspection of data supplied by the applicant, the fee for such an inspection, when carried out by an officer of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, shall be determined by the amount of work involved charged at the hourly rate specified in regulation 4(1).
(2) Where, at the applicant’s request, the inspection of data is carried out by a person appointed by the Secretary of State to act on his behalf, not being an officer of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, a fee shall be payable equal to that person’s charges; such charges to be calculated on a basis to be agreed in advance with the applicant.
(3) Where, in connection with an inspection to which paragraph (2) applies, an officer of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions undertakes any associated administrative work (other than the issue of a sound level measurement certificate or any document of a type specified in Schedule 3 or 4) a further fee shall be payable, in addition to any fee payable under paragraph (2), determined by the amount of work involved charged at the hourly rate specified in regulation 4(1).
(4) Paragraph (1) applies to–
(a)a sound level measurement certificate;
(b)a type approval certificate, or an authorisation, in relation to–
(i)a Community instrument; or
(ii)an ECE Regulation; or
(c)a type approval certificate, or a Minister’s approval certificate, in relation to the national type approval scheme.
(5) Where on an inspection of data supplied by the applicant it has been found impossible to complete the inspection satisfactorily, and a further examination of the vehicle or vehicle part is required, regulation 4 shall apply for the purpose of determining the fee.