Fees for export certification services
4.—(1) A person who applies to the Scottish Ministers for a certificate or IPC document in relation to a plant, plant product or other object, must pay to the Scottish Ministers any fee prescribed in column 3 of the table in the schedule which corresponds to a service described in column 2 of the table which has been performed by an inspector in connection with that application.
(2) Paragraph (3) applies where—
(a)a service listed in column 2 of the table in the schedule includes the issue of a certificate or IPC document; and
(b)the application for the issue of the certificate or IPC document is refused by an inspector by reason of the results of any related inspection, examination or test.
(3) A fee is still payable for the service mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) by the person mentioned in paragraph (1).