Explanatory note

This Order prescribes the fees to be paid to the appropriate Minister (as defined in the Order) or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the issue of a certificate of registration in respect of laying and breeding flock and hatchery premises. Separate fees are payable for the initial and subsequent inspection of breeding flock or hatchery premises. A reduced fee is payable where the flock and hatchery are situated at the same address (article 3 and the Schedule). Fees are also reduced where two or more specified transactions are carried out on premises situated at the same address on the same occasion (article 4).

Fees are prescribed for the issue of the annual renewal certificate of registration, for the taking or the supervision of the taking of samples by an officer of the Minister, for the examination of those samples and for the inspection and authorisation of laboratories for the purposes of certain Orders relating to poultry and protein processing (article 3 and the Schedule).

The fees prescribed in respect of transactions specified in Part I of the Schedule (except item 1) shall come into force on 1st June 1990 and the remaining fees shall come into force on 2nd April 1990 (article 1).