31.—(1) Highway authorities will not be liable to pay fees under a permit scheme.
(2) A Permit Authority must not charge a fee in respect of a variation of a permit or of a condition attached to a permit if the variation was not made at the request of the permit holder.
(3) A Permit Authority must not charge a fee in respect of the deemed issue of a permit or a deemed variation of a permit or of the conditions attached to a permit pursuant to regulation 16(3).
(4) Paragraph (5) applies in a case where the Permit Authority is satisfied that applications for two or more permits received within 3 working days of each other, beginning with the day on which the first application is received, are the result of the applicant, or the applicants working together, designing the timing or extent of the programme of the specified works the subject of the applications so as to produce the least impact for users of the specified streets.
(5) In a case where this paragraph applies the Permit Authority shall allow a minimum 30% discount for each of the applications.