The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022

Provisions supplementary to regulations 14 to 16 E+W+S

17.—(1) Any fee referred to in regulations 14 to 16 above—

(a) is not to exceed the sum of the costs reasonably incurred—

(i) in the case of regulation 16(1) or (2), by the ONR in carrying out the work referred to in the respective paragraph;

(ii) in any other case, by the Executive or the ONR (as the case may be) in performing the function referred to in the respective regulation; and

(b) is payable within 30 days from the date of the invoice that the Executive or the ONR has sent or given to the person who must pay that fee, and such invoice must include a statement of the work done and the costs incurred, including the period to which the statement relates.

(2) No fee payable under regulations 14 to 16 is to include any costs connected with—

(a) in England and Wales, any criminal investigation or prosecution, incurred (in either case) from the date on which any information is laid or, as the case may be, any written charge is issued;

(b) in Scotland, any criminal investigation or prosecution, incurred (in either case) after such time as the Executive submits a report to the Procurator Fiscal for a decision as to whether a prosecution should be brought; or

(c) any appeal pursuant to section 24 of the 1974 Act (appeal against improvement or prohibition notice) and Schedule 1 to the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013(1) or paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to the 2013 Act (appeal against improvement notice or prohibition notice) and Schedule 1 to those Regulations.

(3) For the purposes of regulation 14 and paragraph (2)(a) and (b), an installation is treated as being in England and Wales if it is in the English area within the meaning of article 1 of the Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987(2) and in Scotland if it is in the Scottish area within the meaning of that article.

(4) Any reference in regulation 14 to a person who has prepared a current safety case includes a reference to—

(a) a person who must prepare a safety case, and in that connection as if any reference in that regulation to the installation to which the current safety case relates were a reference to the installation to which the safety case would have related if it had been prepared in accordance with such requirement; and

(b) a person who is treated as having prepared a current safety case by virtue of regulation 2(9) of the 2005 Regulations.

(5) Any reference in regulation 15 to a person who has prepared a safety case includes a reference to a person who must prepare a safety case, and in that connection as if any reference in that regulation to the network to which the safety case relates were a reference to the network to which the safety case would have related if it had been prepared in accordance with such requirement.

(6) Any reference in regulations 14 to 16 to work carried out by a contractor is a reference to work carried out for the benefit of the person by whom the fees are payable under that regulation by a contractor or a contractor’s employees, whether pursuant to an agreement or an arrangement which the contractor has made with that person or with another person.

(7) Any reference in regulations 14 to 16 to a function conferred on an inspector by the 1974 Act which relates to enforcement against a person of any of the relevant statutory provisions includes a reference to any function conferred on an inspector by that Act which is exercised for the purpose of carrying into effect those provisions in relation to that person.

(8) Any reference in regulation 16 to a function conferred on an inspector by the 2013 Act which relates to enforcement against a person of any of the nuclear provisions includes a reference to any function conferred on an inspector by that Act which is exercised for the purpose of carrying into effect those provisions in relation to that person.

(9) For the purposes of this regulation, “nuclear provisions” has the same meaning given in regulation 16.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 17 in force at 21.12.2022, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

S.I. 2013/1237. This instrument was amended by S.I. 2014/468. Other amending instruments have been made, but none are relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1987/2197.