The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2403

WATER, ENGLAND & WALES

WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

24th September 1998

Coming into force

19th October 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 4(2) and 5 of the Reservoirs Act 1975(1), hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 19th October 1998.

Application fees

2.  Regulation 2 of the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) Regulations 1992(2) shall be amended as follows–

(a) in paragraph (1), after “Environment” insert “, Transport and the Regions”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(a), for “£230” substitute “£300”; and

(c) in paragraph (2)(b), for “£185” substitute “£250”.

Revocation

3.  The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1994(3) are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Alan Meale

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th September 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

15th September 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Scotland

Sewel

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office

24th September 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) Regulations 1992, which prescribe the manner in which a civil engineer may apply to be appointed or reappointed to an existing panel of civil engineers set up for the purposes of the Reservoirs Act 1975, and the fee to accompany such an application, by increasing the fee for a first appointment from£230 to £300, and in other cases from £185 to £250. They also revoke previous regulations dealing with fees in relation to appointments to those panels.

(1)

1975 c. 23.

(2)

S.I. 1992/1527, amended by S.I. 1994/1533.

(3)

S.I. 1994/1533.