These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

In these Regulations—

• “approval” includes the amendment of an approval, and “amendment of an approval” includes the issue of a new approval replacing the original incorporating an amendment;

• “employment medical adviser” means an employment medical adviser appointed under section 56(1) of the 1974 Act;

• “the mines and quarries provisions” means such of the relevant statutory provisions as relate exclusively to—

  1. a

     mines within the meaning of section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 19544;

  2. b

     tips and quarries within the meaning of regulations 2(1) and 3 respectively of the Quarries Regulations 19995; and

  3. c

     tips within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 19696;

  and includes regulations, rules and orders relating to a particular mine (whether they are continued in force by regulation 7(3) of the Mines and Quarries Acts 1954 to 1971 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 19747 or are health and safety regulations);

• “original approval” does not include an amendment of an approval;

• “renewal of approval” or “renewal of licence” means respectively the granting of an approval or licence to follow a previous approval or licence without any amendment or gap in time;

• “respiratory protective equipment” includes any respirator and any breathing apparatus; and

• “working days” does not include weekends or public holidays.