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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-and-nuclear-fees-regulations-2022/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-and-nuclear-fees-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Fees for applications for approvals under the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "(1) A fee is payable by the applicant to the Executive on each application for an original approval or a renewal of an approval of training under regulation 5(2)(a) of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989.\n(2) The fee payable under paragraph (1) is—\n(a) where the application for an original approval of training relates to, as the case may be—\n(i) rendering first-aid to persons who are injured or become ill while at work (referred to in this regulation as “offshore first-aid training”); or\n(ii) rendering first-aid to, and treating in accordance with the directions of a registered medical practitioner (who may or may not be present) persons who are injured or become ill while at work, and giving simple advice in connection with the health of persons at work (together referred to in this regulation as “offshore medical training”),\nthat specified in, respectively, columns 1 and 2 of Table 1 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) in respect of an application for a renewal of approval of, as the case may be, offshore first-aid training or offshore medical training, that specified in, respectively, columns 3 and 4 of that Table.\n(3) Where, before an original approval of training is given, a shortcoming in the proposed training is identified by the Executive during a site visit and the Executive requires an additional site visit to be made for the purpose of reassessing an application for an original approval, a fee is payable by the applicant to the Executive.\n(4) The fee payable under paragraph (3) is—\n(a) where the application for approval relates to offshore first-aid training, that specified in column 1 of Table 2 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) where the application for approval relates to offshore medical training, that specified in column 2 of that Table,\nand is payable prior to the notification of the result of the application for approval of training.\n(5) Where the Executive requires a site visit, not including one for the purpose referred to in paragraph (8), to be made in connection with an approval mentioned in paragraph (1) in order to ascertain whether the standards in place when the original approval was given are being maintained, a fee is payable to the Executive by the provider of the approved training, except that no such fee is payable in respect of the first such site visit made after the original approval has been given.\n(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the fee payable under paragraph (5) is—\n(a) where the site visit is in connection with an approval relating to offshore first-aid training, that specified in column 1 of Table 3 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) where the site visit is in connection with an approval relating to offshore medical training, that specified in column 2 of that Table,\nprovided that, where the site visit is in respect of both kinds of approval of training as are referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above and takes only one day to complete, the sum of the payable fees in columns 1 and 2 of that Table is to be reduced by an amount of £161.\n(7) The fee payable under paragraph (5) where the site visit is carried out because a shortcoming in the training has been identified by the Executive during an earlier site visit—\n(a) where the site visit is in connection with an approval relating to offshore first-aid training, is that specified in column 3 of Table 3 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) where the site visit is in connection with an approval ... relating to offshore medical training, is that specified in column 4 of that Table.\n(8) Where the Executive requires a site visit to be made for the purpose of investigating a complaint in relation to training provided pursuant to an approval mentioned in paragraph (1), a fee is payable to the Executive by the provider of the training where—\n(a) the result of the investigation is that the complaint is found to be justified; and\n(b) the complaint could not be investigated during a site visit made for an additional purpose to that of investigating the complaint, requiring, as a result, a further site visit.\n(9) The fee payable under paragraph (8) is—\n(a) where the site visit is made for the purpose of investigating a complaint relating to offshore first-aid training provided pursuant to an approval, that specified in column 1 of Table 4 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) where the site visit is made for the purpose of investigating a complaint relating to offshore medical training provided pursuant to an approval, that specified in column 2 of Table 4 in Schedule 13.\n(10) Where the date for any site visit referred to in this regulation has been agreed between the training provider and the Executive and—\n(a) the training provider wishes to cancel the site visit agreed for that date, and informs the Executive of this wish three working days or less before that date; and\n(b) there is as a result no site visit on that date,\na fee is payable by the training provider to the Executive in respect of that cancelled site visit.\n(11) The fee payable under paragraph (10) is—\n(a) where the site visit was to have been in connection with an approval of offshore first-aid training, that specified in column 3 of Table 4 in Schedule 13; or\n(b) where the site visit was to have been in connection with an approval of offshore medical training, that specified in column 4 of that Table.\n(12) The fee referred to in paragraphs (6), (7), (9) and (11) is payable within 30 days from the date of the invoice that the Executive has sent or given to the person providing the approved training.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 18(6)(b) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/247), regs. 1(1), 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 18 substituted (1.4.2024) by The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) (Amendment) and Gas Safety (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/322), regs. 1(1), 14 (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 18(7)(b) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/247), regs. 1(1), 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 21.12.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1671. Regulation 5 was amended by S.I. 1993/1823 and 2015/398."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1378/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:32.888474+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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