4.—(1) Regulation 10 of the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(1) shall be amended as follows.
(2) At the beginning of paragraph (1) insert the following words “Subject to paragraph (1A)”;
(3) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(1A) No fee shall be payable by a notifier to the competent authority for a notification of an activity involving genetic modification in class 3 under regulation 11(1) or an application for the written agreement of that authority under regulation 18(2) of the 2001 Regulations in circumstances where—
(a)the notifier is of the view, and makes a statement in writing to the effect, that the containment measure for the activity in question has changed as a result of an amendment to any of the containment measures that has been effected by the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006; and
(b)the application was submitted to the authority no later than 1st April 2007.”.