Paragraph 1 Fees for applications for sponsor licences, for certificates of sponsorship or for premium customer services

In this Schedule—

• “premium customer services” means the optional premium customer services offered by the Home Office to certain sponsors;

• “small or charitable sponsor” means a sponsor that is—

  1. (a)

     a company that is subject to the small companies regime under section 381 of the Companies Act 2006^f1;

  2. (b)

     in the case of a person who is not a company for the purposes of that section, a person who employs no more than 50 employees; or

  3. (c)

     a charity within the meaning of section 1 of the Charities Act 2011^f2, or section 1 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008^f3 or a body entered in the Scottish Charity Register;

In this Schedule, reference to Tier 2, Tier 4 and Tier 5 premium customer services means the premium customer services offered to sponsors of persons applying for leave to remain in the United Kingdom under the stated Tier.