The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 143

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

26th January 2005

Coming into force

13th February 2005

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 4(2) and 5 of the Reservoirs Act 1975(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 13th February 2005.

Application Fees

2.  Regulation 2 of the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application and Fees) Regulations 1992(2) shall be amended as follows–

(a) in paragraph (1), for “for the Environment, Transport and the Regions” substitute “for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute “£385”.

Revocation

3.  The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998(3) are hereby revoked.

Elliot Morley

Minister of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

26th January 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application and Fees) Regulations 1992 (“the Principal Regulations”), which prescribe the manner in which a civil engineer may apply to be appointed or reappointed to a panel of civil engineers constituted for the purposes of the Reservoirs Act 1975. These Regulations increase the fee to accompany such an application from £300, for a first appointment, and from £250, in all other cases, to £385 in all cases. They also revoke the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 which previously amended the amount of fees prescribed in relation to appointments to those panels.

These Regulations extend to Great Britain.

No Regulatory Impact assessment has been carried out for these Regulations, which have no impact on the costs of business.

(1)

1975 c. 23. All functions under this Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) and the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (1999/672) in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales. With respect to Scotland the functions are exercisable by the Scottish Ministers in so far as within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. In neither Wales nor Scotland have separate panels of engineers been established. In so far as the functions in sections 4 and 5 relate to panels appointed with respect to the whole of Great Britain, they are not capable of being exercised in relation to either Wales or Scotland alone, and have not therefore been transferred.

(2)

S.I.1992/1527, amended by S.I. 1994/1533 (itself revoked by S.I. 1998/2403) and S.I. 1998/2403 (revoked by these Regulations).

(3)

S.I. 1998/2403.