Amendment of the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001

9.  After regulation 20 (service of notices and other documents) of the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001(1), insert—

“Fees

20A.— (1) The Secretary of State may charge fees in respect of—

(a) granting, rejecting, modifying, transferring, surrendering or revoking consent under regulation 4(1);

(b) making an appropriate assessment under regulation 5(1) where that assessment is made only to support a decision on a specific application for a consent, authorisation or approval;

(c) consulting appropriate nature conservation bodies on any matter under these Regulations;

(d) giving a certification under regulation 6(1)(b);

(e) determining compensatory measures under regulation 6(3) and securing that such measures are taken;

(f) giving, modifying or revoking a direction under regulation 7; and

(g) reviewing the appropriateness of a direction under regulation 8.

(2) A fee charged under paragraph (1) is where—

A is the number of hours work carried out by specialist officers;

B is £167;

C is the number of hours work carried out by non-specialist officers; and

D is £72.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the number of hours work may be expressed as a fraction where—

(a) less than one hour’s work has been carried out; or

(b) the total amount of time worked is more than one hour but cannot be expressed as a whole number in hours.

(4) Any fee must be paid on demand.

(5) In this regulation, “specialist officers” means persons engaged on behalf of the Secretary of State to carry out the functions of the Secretary of State referred to in paragraph (1) and “non-specialist officers” means any other persons engaged on behalf of the Secretary of State to provide administrative support to those specialist officers.”.

(1)

S.I. 2001/1754. S.I. 2001/1754 was amended by S.I. 2007/77, S.I. 2007/1842 and S.I. 2010/1513 and has effect with modifications as a result of S.I. 2010/1513.