The Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) Order 1988

Alternative fees for export certification services

5.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Order where –

(a) opposite the reference to any service described in column 2 of Schedule 1 there is also prescribed an alternative fee, and

(b) the applicant applies for the performance of more than one such service, or more than one performance of any such service, under a single application, and

(c) two or more such services are performed consecutively

there shall be paid to the Minister, in place of the basic fee, the alternative fee so prescribed.

(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply to –

(a) the first, fifteenth and twenty-ninth service nor to any other service which follows this sequence (that is to say every 14th service), other than a service described in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite item number 9, or

(b) the first service, being a service described opposite the said item 9.

(3) Where the applicant applies, under a single application –

(a) for the performance of more than one of the services described in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite item numbers 1, 2 and 3, or more than one performance of any of those services, or

(b) for more than one performance of the service described in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite item number 5

the services shall, for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) above, be treated as performed consecutively whether or not they are so performed.

(4) No application shall be treated as an application made for the purposes of this article unless the services are to be performed on premises farmed, worked, occupied or administered as a single unit within the same district or any district adjoining it.

(5) For the purposes of this article services shall be treated as performed consecutively if –

(a) they are performed in immediate succession, or

(b) notwithstanding that they are not so performed, the articles in respect of which the services are performed were so presented by the applicant as to have enabled the services to be performed in immediate succession.