{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-1994/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-1994/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2020",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Prescribed Fees) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Payment of fees",
  "text": "(1) A fee authorised by regulation 4(a) to (c) is payable by the person by whom or on whose behalf the work is to be or is being or has been carried out, and a fee authorised by regulation 4(d) or (e) is payable by the owner of the work or of the building to or in connection with which the work is or is to be carried out.\n(2) Any fee authorised by regulation 4 shall be paid together with an amount equal to any value added tax chargeable in respect of that fee, and any reference in this Part of these Regulations, except in regulation 5, to the payment, receipt or refund of a fee is a reference to the payment, receipt or refund, in addition to the fee, of such an amount.\n(3) The plan fee is payable on the first occasion on which plans of the work are deposited.\n(4) The inspection fee is payable on demand made after the local authority carry out the first inspection in respect of which the fee is payable.\n(5) The building notice fee is payable when the building notice is given to the local authority.\n(6) The reversion fee is payable—\n(a) for work in relation to a building which has been substantially completed before plans are first given to the local authority in accordance with regulation 18(2)(a)(i) of the Approved Inspectors Regulations, on the first occasion on which those plans are given,\n(b) for work in relation to a building in respect of which plans for further work are given to the local authority in accordance with regulation 18(3) of the Approved Inspectors Regulations, on the first occasion on which those plans are given.\n(7) The regularisation fee is payable at the time of the application to the local authority in accordance with regulation 13A of the Principal Regulations.\n(8) A local authority may agree, in a particular case, that part of any fee authorised by regulation 4(a) to (d) may be paid by instalments of amounts specified by the local authority, on dates specified by the authority, and where the authority have so agreed, the fee or part of it is to be regarded as due on such date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2020/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:24.668737+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}