Article 5 Annual fees for an applicant with a continuation licence but no existing licenceI1

This article only applies to a person—

The first annual fee payable by the applicant under section 100(1)(a) of the 2005 Act in respect of the continuation licence is the amount prescribed for the kind of remote operating licence issued to the applicant as a continuation licence.

Where the Commission grants the advance application (whether in whole or in part) and issues a remote operating licence to the applicant, the first annual fee payable by the applicant for that remote operating licence is—

Where—

the Commission must repay to the applicant the difference between those two amounts in respect of the period from the date of issue of that remote operating licence to 31st October 2015.

Where the Commission wholly rejects the advance application, it must repay to the applicant that portion of the prescribed first annual fee paid for the continuation licence in respect of the period from the date the application is rejected to 31st October 2015.

Where the Commission grants the advance application (whether in whole or in part) and issues a remote operating licence to the applicant, the annual fee for that remote operating licence under section 100(1)(b) of the 2005 Act must be paid before 1st November 2015 and before 1st November in each year thereafter.