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The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 1st October 2012.

(2) They cease to have effect at the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(3) In these Regulations—

“approval” includes the amendment of an approval, and “amendment of an approval” includes the issue of a new approval replacing the original and incorporating one or more amendments;

“employment medical adviser” means an employment medical adviser appointed under section 56(1) of the 1974 Act;

“the mines and quarries provisions” means such of the relevant statutory provisions as relate exclusively to—

(a)

mines within the meaning of section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954(1);

(b)

tips and quarries within the meaning of regulations 2(1) and 3 respectively of the Quarries Regulations 1999(2); and

(c)

tips within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969(3);

and includes regulations, rules and orders relating to a particular mine, whether they are continued in force by regulation 7(3) of the Mines and Quarries Acts 1954 to 1971 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1974(4) or are health and safety regulations;

“original approval” and “original type approval” do not include an amendment of an approval; and

“working days” does not include weekends or public holidays.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations to the renewal of an approval, explosives certificate, licence or registration (each referred to in this paragraph as an “authorisation”) means the granting of the authorisation concerned to follow a previous authorisation of the same kind without any amendment or gap in time.

(1)

1954 c.70; section 180 was amended by S.I. 1974/2013, 1993/1897 and 1999/2024.

(2)

S.I. 1999/2024, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

1969 c.10; section 2(1) was amended by S.I. 1999/2024.

(4)

S.I. 1974/2013, modified by S.I. 1979/318.

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