PART 7MISCELLANEOUS

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1

The Board and the GMC may each charge reasonable fees to cover the cost of providing services in the course of the performance of any of its functions under or by virtue of this Order.

2

The Board and the GMC may each set those fees at levels such that the fees also cover the cost of such of its overheads as are reasonably attributable to the performance of its functions under or by virtue of this Order, but the fees must not include any element of profit.

3

The fee charged by the Board or the GMC for any particular service must not include more than a reasonable proportion of the total cost of its overheads referred to in paragraph (2).

4

This article does not prevent the GMC, where it has power to do so, from setting any other fee which it has power to charge at a level designated to include costs referred to in this article, but any costs recovered that way cannot also be recovered by way of fees under this article.

5

If the Board or the GMC charges any fee in accordance with paragraph (1), it shall specify the amount of the fee in rules.