The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Fees) Regulations 1998

regulation 4

SCHEDULE 3 FEES 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) the 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 £65.00 per hour and by equipment test unit staff in testing the pattern at £65.00 per hour, including any time spent travelling, and any time during which the pattern is tested in an environmental testing chamber at the rate of £15.00 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.

2.  Subject to paragraph 3 below, the amounts referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) above shall be due and payable on the service on the applicant of an invoice from the Secretary of State monthly in arrears.

3.  On completion of the examination, the Secretary of State shall serve an invoice on the applicant for the final amount of the fees, together with the notification of such completion, and the final amount shall, before notification of the result, be due and payable to the Secretary of State.