The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Fees for Requests for Planning Approval) Regulations 1997

Termination of request on non-payment of fee

11.—(1) Where—

(a) the prescribed fee is not paid to the authority within a period of 6 weeks beginning with the date of its receipt of the request; and

(b) the undertaker has not, within that period, notified the authority that it disputes the amount of the fee payable pursuant to these Regulations or that it claims an exception set out in Schedule 1 hereto is applicable—

the authority may treat the request as terminated.

(2) Where the authority decides to treat an application as terminated pursuant to paragraph (1), it shall, before the expiry of the appropriate period for the purposes of paragraph 32(3) of the Schedule, give notice of its decision to the undertaker.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation and of regulation 12:

(a) a fee or the balance of a fee is paid when a cheque is tendered to the authority in payment of it, except where the cheque is dishonoured; and

(b) where a cheque is dishonoured, the fee or balance of the fee is paid when the authority is satisfied that it has received the full amount of the fee or balance.