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4. After regulation 5(6) (Exports) insert–
“(7) For the purposes of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1739/2005 the Scottish Ministers are the competent authority, and may charge such fees as they consider appropriate to meet the expenses incurred by them in the registration of a circus or animal act under Article 4 of that Regulation.
(8) Such fees shall be paid by the applicant for registration and shall be due after submission of the application upon the written demand of the Scottish Ministers.
(9) A demand under paragraph (8) may be addressed to the applicant concerned at the applicant’s last known address, whether or not it is the applicant’s address for business.
(10) An operator must comply with Article 8(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1739/2005 (obliging operators of circuses, to which that Regulation applies, to retain for at least five years the information in their registers of animals and of venues).
(11) In paragraph (10), “operator” means a circus operator within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1739/2005, or the operator of an animal act in so far as that Regulation applies to that operator.”.
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