10.—(1) A fee is payable by the operator to the competent authority for the performance by the competent authority or on its behalf by the Health and Safety Executive, the [F1regulator] , the emergency services or the health authority for the area in the vicinity of the mining waste facility concerned (“the other bodies”) of any function conferred on the competent authority by these Regulations.
(2) The fee in paragraph (1) must not exceed the sum of the costs reasonably incurred by the competent authority and the other bodies for the performance of a function in paragraph (1).
(3) When requiring payment of the fee, the competent authority must send or give to the operator a detailed statement of the work done and costs incurred, including—
(a)the dates of any visits to the mining waste facility; and
(b)the period to which the statement relates.
(4) The fee becomes payable one month after the competent authority has issued the statement in paragraph (3), and is recoverable only as a civil debt.
(5) Any fee payable under this regulation does not include any costs connected with any criminal investigation or prosecution incurred (in either case) from the date any summons is obtained from a Magistrates’ Court.
(6) The competent authority must pay to each of the other bodies any such fee or part of any such fee it recovers as is attributable to work done by that body in performing the functions concerned.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 10(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 329 (with Sch. 7)