12.—(1) When an application is made to the Secretary to State under section 293A of the 1990 Act (urgent crown development applications)(1) a fee is payable to the Secretary of State.
(2) A fee is only payable under this regulation if a fee would have been payable to the relevant authority under these Regulations had the application for planning permission set out in the application under section 293A of the 1990 Act been made to that authority.
(3) The amount of the fee payable to the Secretary of State under paragraph (1) shall be the same as the amount of the fee that would have been payable to the relevant authority under these Regulations.
(4) In this regulation “relevant authority” means the local planning authority to whom the fee would have been payable in accordance with these Regulations had the application been made to one or more local planning authorities.
(5) Any fee paid under this regulation shall be refunded if the application is rejected as invalid.
Section 293A was inserted by section 82(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5).