{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-and-other-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-and-other-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1431",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provisions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-and-other-provisions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Calculation of fees",
  "text": "(1) A fee referred to in regulations 2 to 6 is (A×B)+(C×D) where—\nA is the number of hours work carried out by specialist officers;\nB is £256;\nC is the number of hours work carried out by non-specialist officers; and\nD is £130.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the number of hours work may be expressed as a fraction where—\n(a) less than one hour’s work has been carried out; or\n(b) the total amount of time worked is more than one hour but cannot be expressed as a whole number in hours.\n(3) In this regulation—\n“specialist officers” means persons engaged on behalf of the Secretary of State to—\n(a)carry out the functions of the Secretary of State referred to in regulations 2 to 5B; and\n(b)determine the applications referred to in regulation 6; and\n“non-specialist officers” means any other persons engaged on behalf of the Secretary of State to provide administrative support to specialist officers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 7(1) substituted (7.7.2026) by The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/757), regs. 1(2), 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 7(1) substituted (7.7.2026) by The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/757), regs. 1(2), 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(3) substituted (1.4.2018) by The Oil and Gas Authority (Levy) and Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/311), regs. 1, 10(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 22.7.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1431/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:29.947242+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}