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Powers of licensing authority to charge fees

9.—(1) This regulation applies where the licensing authority charges a fee for an authorisation or an approval under regulation 5(1)(b).

(2) Before charging a fee, the licensing authority must prepare and publish a fees policy.

(3) When fixing a fee for the purposes of determining an application for an authorisation or an approval under regulation 5, the licensing authority—

(a)must act in accordance with its policy;

(b)may fix different fees for different cases or descriptions of cases; and

(c)may determine that no fee is required to be paid in certain cases or descriptions of case.

(4) The licensing authority may review its fees policy and where it does so must publish the policy as revised.