Food and Environment Protection Act 1985

18 Fees

(1) Either of the Ministers may require an applicant for the approval of a pesticide under this Part of this Act, on making his application, to pay a reasonable fee in respect of the administrative expenses of processing his application.

(2) A Minister may also require an applicant for an approval to pay a further reasonable fee towards the expenses of carrying out any examinations and tests which in the opinion of that Minister are necessary or expedient to enable that Minister to decide whether to give an approval under this Part of this Act.

(3) Where either of the Ministers has given an approval, he may require the payment of reasonable fees from time to time—

(a) in respect of the collection of information under section 16(11) above and the processing of information supplied under that subsection ;

(b) in respect of monitoring the effect of the use of pesticides in the United Kingdom,

by such persons as he considers appropriate.

(4) Fees under this section shall be determined on principles settled by the Ministers with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with organisations appearing to the Ministers to represent persons who are likely to apply for approvals.

(5) If a Minister does anything by virtue of this Part of this Act in consequence of a failure on the part of any person to comply with regulations, the Minister may recover from that person expenses reasonably incurred by the Minister in doing it