Paragraph 2 Salaries and related costs
The salaries or fees, together with overtime payments and employers' national insurance and superannuation contributions, of official veterinary surgeons and inspectors engaged in carrying out inspections and supervisory functions (or the relevant proportion thereof in so far as those inspections or functions do not occupy their full working day). In determining the amount chargeable in respect of these costs the following shall apply:—
If the hours required for the carrying out of inspections and supervisory functions at an export slaughterhouse occupy less than the full working day of an official veterinary surgeon or inspector but the remaining period is too short for it to be practicable to employ that person fully on other duties, the full day (other than time actually spent on other duties) may be charged. In particular, if inspection is required at two or more distinct periods of the working day, the full time from the start of the first period of inspection to the end of the final period may be charged, other than any time actually spent on other duties.
Where, because of a change in the scale or mode of operation of an export slaughterhouse, the number of hours required for inspections and supervisory functions at that slaughterhouse falls below the number envisaged when the charges applicable to that slaughterhouse were determined and the occupier thereof has given written notice to the local authority of that change of circumstance, the charges applicable to that slaughterhouse shall be correspondingly reduced on or before the expiry of a period of two months from the date of that notice.
Travelling and related incidental expenses incurred by staff engaged in the carrying out of inspections and supervisory functions (including subsistence and car user allowances where these are paid) except that such expenses shall not be charged where an inspector is employed exclusively at one export slaughterhouse, unless otherwise mutually agreed between the local authority and the occupier of that slaughterhouse.