The Farmed Game Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Charges) Regulations 1993

Regulation 5(1)

SCHEDULE PERMITTED COST FACTORS FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE REAL COST OF CARRYING OUT A HEALTH INSPECTION AND CONTROL EXERCISE

General

1.  The use made by a premises of the local authority’s facilities required to carry out health inspection and control exercises at those premises, account being taken of economies in inspection resources made possible by their scale or mode of operation.

Salaries and related costs

2.—(1) The salaries or fees, together with overtime payments and employers' national insurance and superannuation contributions, of an authorised officer engaged in carrying out health inspection and control exercises (or the relevant proportion thereof in so far as those exercises do not occupy their full working day). In determining the amount chargeable in respect of these costs the following shall apply:

(a) if the hours required for the carrying out of health inspection and control exercises at a premises occupy less than the full working day of an authorised officer but the remaining period is too short for it to be practicable to employ the person fully on other duties, the full day other than time actually spent on other duties may be charged. In particular, if inspection is required at two or more distinct periods of the working day, the full time from the start of the first period of inspection to the end of the final period may be charged, other than any time actually spent on other duties;

(b) where, because of a change in the scale or mode of operation of a premises the number of hours required for health inspection and control exercises at that premises falls below the number envisaged when the charges applicable to that premises were determined and the occupier thereof has given written notice to the local authority of that change of circumstances, the charges applicable to that premises shall be correspondingly reduced on or before the expiry of a period of two months from the date of that notice.

(2) Travelling and related incidental expenses incurred by authorised officers in the carrying out of health inspection and control exercises (including subsistence and car user allowances where these are paid) except that such expenses shall not be charged where an authorised officer is employed exclusively at one premises unless otherwise mutually agreed between the local authority and the occupier of that premises.

Furniture and office equipment

3.  Depreciation of any office furniture or office equipment provided by the local authority for the use of authorised officers at the premises. Such costs shall not be included where, by agreement with the local authority, these items are provided by the occupier of those premises.

Administrative Costs

Stationery and printing etc.

4.  The invoice price paid for record sheets and labels used in connection with meat inspection, and ink for marking meat.

Protective clothing and working equipment

5.  The invoice price paid for protective clothing and equipment used for the carrying out of health inspection and control exercises to the extent that they are paid for by the local authority.

Laundry

6.  The cost of laundering protective clothing at the local authority’s expense.

Telephone

7.  Costs incurred by the local authority in respect of telephone calls to and from any premises in relation to health inspection and control exercises carried out there.

Other administrative costs

8.  The cost of accounting and collecting charges and of providing pay-roll and personnel services in connection with the employment of an authorised officer, including the cost to the local authority of arranging the provision, and ensuring the proper carrying out of health inspection and control exercises.