SCHEDULE 3FEES FOR EEC PATTERN APPROVAL

1.  Where regulation 8(1), (2) or (5) of the 1988 principal Regulations applies (application for grant of EEC pattern approval or for modification or additions to, or for extension of, an EEC approved pattern), the fees shall be—

(a)an amount in respect of any time calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour (a period of 7½ minutes being rounded up to a quarter of an hour) taken by examination staff conducting the examination at the rate of £59.00 per hour and by equipment test unit staff in testing the pattern at the rate of £47.00 per hour, including any time spent in travelling, and any time during which the pattern is tested in an environmental testing chamber at the rate of £10.00 per hour, due and payable as indicated in paragraphs (2) and (3) below; and

(b)the amount of additional expenses, if any, incurred by or occasioned to the Secretary of State, by reason of any part of the examination taking place at a place other than the National Weights and Measures Laboratory of the Department of Trade and Industry, due and payable as indicated in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.