The Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1052

PLANT HEALTH

The Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made

11th May 1990

Laid before Parliament

11th May 1990

Coming into force

1st June 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England and the Secretary of State in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(2)(b), 2, 3(1) and 4A of the Plant Health Act 1967(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby make the following Order:

Title, extent, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990, shall apply to England and Wales and shall come into force on 1st June 1990.

(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) Order 1988(3).

Amendment of the principal Order

2.  For Schedule 2 to the principal Order (fees in respect of import licensing services) there shall be substituted the provisions of the Schedule to this Order.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 10th May 1990.

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

9th May 1990

We consent,

John Major

David Lightbown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

11th May 1990

Article 2

SCHEDULE PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 2 TO THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

Article 8

“SCHEDULE 2 FEES IN RESPECT OF IMPORT LICENSING SERVICES

(1) Item	(2) Service	(3) Fee	(4) Old fee
(a) The figures in italics are the fees which were charged under this Order before the coming into force of the Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/).”
		£	£(a)
1	Consideration of an application for the issue of an import licence and the performance of any connected service, including the issue of the licence where appropriate	215	(180)
2	The inspection of articles imported for the purposes of a trade or business, being an inspection required by the terms of the import licence under which the articles were imported	37	(33)
3	Where the application for an import licence is for the import of articles for a scientific purpose and the number of types of article to be imported under the same licence exceeds 5, the inclusion of one type of article in the licence in addition to the first five	6	(5)
4	Where an import licence is issued for the importation of articles for a scientific purpose, the variation of the licence so as to enable the importation of additional articles under that licence	25 plus 6 for each article	(21 plus 5 for each article
5	The issue of an import licence for the importation of articles not for the purposes of a trade or business nor for a scientific purpose	31	(26)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Import and Export (Plant Health Fees) (England and Wales) Order 1988 by substituting a new Schedule for Schedule 2 to that Order. The new Schedule prescribes increased fees in respect of import licensing services.

(1)

1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8, and section 4A was inserted by the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49), section 3.

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.

(3)

S.I. 1988/1427, amended by S.I. 1989/1309.