The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995

Fees

5.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, the GMC and the STA may each charge such reasonable fees as it determines to cover the cost of providing services in the course of the performance of any of its functions under or by virtue of this Order.

(2) The GMC and the STA may each set those fees at levels such that (taken together) the fees also cover the cost of such of its overheads as are reasonably attributable to the performance of all of its functions under or by virtue of this Order; but the fees must not include any element of profit.

(3) The fee charged by the GMC or the STA for any particular service must not include more than a reasonable proportion of the total cost of its overheads referred to in paragraph (2).

(4) This article does not prevent the GMC, where it has power to do so, from setting any other fee which it has power to charge at a level designed to include costs referred to in this article; but any costs recovered that way cannot also be recovered by way of fees under this article.