Paragraph 3

Regulation 1(2) (application) shall be omitted.

In regulation 5 (amount of plan fee, building notice fee and inspection fee) immediately before the words “Schedule 1”, “Schedule 2” and “Schedule 3” there shall be inserted in each case the words “Subject to regulation 6A”.

In regulation 6 (amount of fee for work reverting to local authority control) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 6A”.

Immediately before regulation 7 (exemption from plan fee) there shall be inserted the following regulation—

““Amount of fees in inner London

6A

Where it is the practice of an inner London borough council to make charges under section 36 of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1984^f1 (charges in respect of drainage works), the amount of any fee authorised to be charged by regulation 4 for work in the area of that borough shall be the following percentages of the fee otherwise payable—

(a)

75 per cent. if the fee is determined in accordance with Schedule 1;

(b)

60 per cent. if the fee is determined in accordance with Schedule 2;

(c)

90 per cent. if the fee is determined in accordance with Schedule 3.”

In regulation 17 (transitional provisions) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3)

This regulation does not apply in inner London.”.