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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-fees-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-fees-regulations-1994",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This Note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations update and replace the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1992 (S. I. No. 1752). They also incorporate the provisions for charging the fees which were updated by the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1993 (S. I. No. 1321) and incorporate provisions for charging fees in regulation 5 of the Road Traffic (Training of Drivers of Vehicles Carrying Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1992 (S. I. No. 744). They fix or determine the fees payable by an applicant to the Health and Safety Executive in respect of an application made for—\n(a) an approval under mines and quarries legislation (regulation 2 and Schedule 1);\n(b) an approval of certain respiratory protective equipment (regulation 3 and Schedule 2);\n(c) an approval of plant or equipment under the Agriculture (Tractor Cabs) Regulations 1974 (regulation 4 and Schedule 3);\n(d) an approval of a scheme or programme under the Freight Containers (Safety Convention) Regulations 1984 (regulation 5 and Schedule 4);\n(e) a licence under the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 (regulation 6 and Schedule 5);\n(f) an approval of dosimetry services and for type approval of radiation generators or apparatus containing radioactive substances under the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 (regulation 9 and Schedule 8);\n(g) an approval, authorisation or licence etc. under the Explosives Act 1875 and certain instruments thereunder, for a licence under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 or for the classification of an article, substance, combination, or unit load under the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983 (regulation 10 and Schedule 9);\n(h) an explosives licence under Part IX of the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987 (regulation 12 and Schedule 10);\n(i) an examination of specified appliances or equipment on offshore installations (regulation 13 and Schedule 11);\n(j) a vocational training certificate under the Road Traffic (Training of Drivers of Vehicles Carrying Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1992 (regulation 14 and Schedule 12).\n2 The Regulations also fix the fees to be paid in respect of medical examinations and surveillance by an employment medical adviser which are required under certain of the relevant statutory provisions (regulations 7 and 8 and Schedules 6 and 7).\n3 The Regulations fix maximum fees which may be charged under the Explosives Act 1825, the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 and the Petroleum (Transfer of Licences) Act 1936 (Regulation 10(2) and Schedule 9, Part II).\n4 The new fees compared with those fixed by or determined under the previous Regulations are as follows:\nProvision of these Regulations which fixes or determines the fees\nPrevious Fee\nNew Fee\nSchedule 1\nOriginal approval\nAmendment of approval\nRenewal of approval\nOriginal approval\nAmendment of approval\nRenewal of approval\nPart I\nApproval of breathing apparatus\n£1,030\n£515\n£55\n£1,030\n£515\n£55\nApproval of dust respirators\n£57 per hour worked\n£57 per hourworked\n£57 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\nApproval of explosives\n£188\n£130\n£55\n£188\n£130\n£55\nApproval of locomotive or other vehicle\n£2,027\n£533\n£55\n£2,027\n£533\n£55\nApproval of electrical equipment for use in potentially gassy zones\n£632\n£412\n£55\n£632\n£412\n£55\nApproval of methanometers\n£303\n£193\n£55\n£303\n£193\n£55\nApproval of electric safety lamps\n£303\n£193\n£55\n£303\n£193\n£55\nApproval of other types of apparatus essential for safety\n£154\n£154\n£55\n£154\n£154\n£55\nPart II\nBallistic pendulum shot\n£41\n£41\nBreak test shot\n£51\n£51\nDeflagration shot\n£35\n£35\nDetonator test (per 100 shots)\n£380\n£380\nDetonator delay time test (per 100 shots)\n£232\n£232\nGallery shot\n£82\n£82\nMortar shot\n£39\n£39\nVelocity of detonation test (per 3 shots)\n£72\n£72\nPart III\nOther testing not fixed in Parts I and II\n£57 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\nSchedule 2\nApproval of respiratory protective equipment\n£57 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\nSchedule 3\nOriginal approval of tractor cab\n£209\n£230\nRevision of an existing approval of a tractor cab\n£99\n£125\nSchedule 4\nApproval of scheme or programme for examination of freight containers\n£75\n£75\nSchedule 5\nLicence for work with asbestos insulations or asbestos coating or renewal of licence\n£450\n£505\nProvision of these Regulations which fixes or determines the fees\nPrevious Fee\nNew Fee\nSchedule 6\nBasic\nX-Rays\nLaboratory tests\nBasic\nX-Rays\nLaboratory tests\nThe Work in Compressed Air Special Regulations 1958\n£40\n£37.40\n£19.50\n£40\n£40.80\n£24.50\nThe Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985—\n(a) where surveillance is confined to examination of, and making entries in records\n£17\n£37.40\n£19.50\n£17\n£40.80\n£24.50\n(b) in other cases\n£39\n£37.40\n£19.50\n£39\n£40.80\n£24.50\nControl of Asbestos at Work Regulations 1987\n£43\n£34.10\n£17.50\n£43\n£40.80\n£24.50\nControl of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988\n£40\n£37.40\n£19.50\n£40\n£40.80\n£24.50\nSchedule 7\nOn the First Assessment of an employee (including any clinical medical examination and laboratory tests in connection with the assessment).\n£40.50\n£41\nOn each subsequent assessment of an employee—\n(i) for laboratory tests where these are carried out\n£40.50\n£24.50\n(ii) for a clinical medical examination where this is carried out\n£18.50\n£28\nSchedule 8\nGroup I\nDose record keeping where the application is solely in respect of Group I function\n£429\n£610\nDose record keeping where the application for Group I functions is linked to an application for approval in another group\n£183\n£227\nGroup II\nExternal dosimetry\n£500 for one sub-group and £215 for each additional sub-group\n£610 for one sub-group and £227 for each additional sub-group\nGroup III\nInternal dosimetry—\n(a) Bio-assay or in vivo monitoring or air sampling\n£439\n£610\n(b) for each additional technique\nfee charged on a different basis\n£227\nType approval of a radiation generator or an apparatus containing a radioactive substance under sub-paragraph (f) or (g) respectively of Schedule 3 to the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985\n£87\n£90\nSchedule 9 Part I\nFactory licence\n£850 plus £45 additional fee for each building or other place in which explosives are to be made or kept\n£363.50 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nMagazine licence\n£656 plus £45 additional fee for each building or other place in which explosives are to be kept\n£363.50 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nFactory amending licence\n£308 plus £11 additional fee for each building or other place to be specified in the amending licence and in which explosives are to be made or kept\n£89.50 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nMagazine amending licence\n£53 plus £11 additional fee for each building or other place to be specified in the amending licence and in which explosives are to be kept\n£89.50 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nLicence for importation of explosives\n£46\n£47\nReplacement of one of the above licences if lost\n£23\n£23\nAmendment to an existing licence\n£16\n£47\nLicence for importation of compressed acetylene\n£49.50\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nReplacement of the above licence if lost\n£23\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nAmendment to an existing licence\n£16\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nPart II\nA store licence\n£56.50\n£58.50\nRenewal of a store licence\n£56.50\n£58.50\nRegistration and renewal of registration of premises for the keeping of explosives with a local authority\n£10\n£10\nLicence to keep petroleum spirit of a quantity—\nnot exceeding 2,500 litres\n£27 for each year of licence\n£28 for each year of licence\nexceeding 2,500 litres but not exceeding 50,000 litres\n£40 for each year of licence\n£41.10 for each year of licence\nexceeding 50,000\n£78 for each year of licence\n£81 for each year of licence\nTransfer of petroleum spirit licence\n£7\n£7\nPart III\nOriginal approval of premises in which acetylene is to be manufactured or kept\n£488\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nAmendment of an approval of premises in which acetylene is to be manufactured or kept\n£216\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nApproval of apparatus in which acetylene is to be manufactured or kept\n£26.40\n£15 plus £34 per hourworked by specialist inspector\nPart IV\nComparison of a porous substance with a sample porous substance\n£26.40\n£26.40\nOriginal approval of premises in which acetylene is compressed\n£488\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nAmendment of an approval of premises in which acetylene is compressed\n£33\n£15 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nPart V\nAuthorisation or classification of an explosive to be manufactured for general sale or to be imported with or without a licence\n£133\n£34 plus £34 per hourworked by specialist inspector\nGrant of an ammonium nitrate mixtures licence under article 3 of the Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures Exemption Order 1967\n£139 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\n£122 plus £34 per hour worked by specialist inspector\nPart VI\nTesting in connection with specified applications in Parts I, III, IV or V\n£57 per hour worked\n£65 per hour worked\nSchedule 10\nGrant of an explosives licence or alteration of the terms of an existing explosives licence\n£251 plus £43 per hour worked\n£254 plus £34 per hour worked\nSchedule 11\nExaminations under the Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations 1977 or the Offshore Installations (Fire-fighting Equipment) Regulations 1978—\non any day except a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday—\nbetween 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.\n£42 per hour spent\n£42 per hour spent\nbefore 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m.\n£63 per hour spent\n£63 per hour spent\non a Saturday\n£63 per hour spent\n£63 per hour spent\non a Sunday or public holiday\n£84 per hour spent\n£84 per hour spent\nSchedule 12\nVocational training certificates under regulation 5 of the Road Traffic (Training of Drivers of Vehicles Carrying Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1992\n£2.70\n£2.70\n5 The Regulations do not apply to Northern Ireland.",
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