{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-procedure-licences-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-procedure-licences-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/1244",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Procedure Licences (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-procedure-licences-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Compliance fee",
  "text": "(1) This regulation makes provision about the way in which a local authority determines the amount of the compliance fee (if any) for the purposes of section 76(1) of the Act.\n(2) The costs to which a local authority must, in determining the amount of the compliance fee, have regard (in accordance with section 76(4) of the Act) include, in particular, costs incurred by the local authority or expected to be incurred by the local authority in connection with the following activities (but not limited to)—\n(a) maintaining records on the local authority database,\n(b) maintaining the register established under section 75 of the Act,\n(c) an authorised officer exercising the powers of entry etc. under section 84 of the Act and undertaking unannounced visits, which may in some cases result in the exercise of the powers of inspection etc. under section 88 of the Act,\n(d) taking action against the licence holder and exercising the power to revoke a special procedure licence under section 68 of the Act, and\n(e) specifying the officer grade and time associated with each of these functions.\n(3) A local authority must review the level of the fee—\n(a) at the end of the period of 1 year beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force, and\n(b) at subsequent intervals of no more than 1 year.\n(4) The compliance fee may not be paid in instalments.\n(5) If after the compliance fee is paid it becomes apparent that a lesser fee should have been paid, the excess must be refunded.\n(6) Any compliance fee that is due to a local authority and remains unpaid may be recoverable by that local authority by way of a civil debt.\n(7) In this regulation—\n“authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”) has the meaning given in section 83 of the Act;\n“compliance fee” (“ffi gydymffurfio”) means a fee that may be charged by the local authority under section 76(1) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1244/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:23.576570+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."
}