# The Telecommunication Apparatus (Approval Fees) (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications) Order 1992, Article 3: Interpretation


(1) In this Order—
“the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984;
“application fee” means the fee payable to BABT by an applicant for an approval at the time of making application to BABT therefor in respect of the exercise by BABT of the Secretary of State’s function of determining the application;
“approval” means an approval of apparatus under section 22 of the Act;
“BABT” means the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications;
“continuation fee” means, in relation to an approval which specifies relevant conditions, the fee payable to BABT by that person upon each relevant anniversary in respect of the exercise by BABT of the function of satisfying itself that those conditions are being complied with;
“relevant anniversary” means, in relation to a continuation fee, the anniversary of the date upon which the approval was given (whether that date was before or after the coming into force of this Order) being an anniversary on which the approval remains in force; and
“relevant conditions” mean conditions specified by an approval pursuant to section 22(4) of the Act which must be complied with if the approval is to apply, imposing on the person to whom the approval is given a requirement from time to time to satisfy BABT with respect to any matter.
(2) A reference in this Order to the function of—
(a) the determination of applications for approval; or
(b) being satisfied that relevant conditions are being complied with,
includes, without prejudice to the generality thereof, a reference to the consideration by BABT of whether the apparatus to which the application relates conforms or continues to conform as the case may be with a standard designated under section 22(6) of the Act.
(3) In this Order—
“master product” means the primary design of apparatus to which an application for approval relates;
“sister product” means a variant of the master product which has some features differing therefrom to an extent such that there are differences in the testing and evaluation involved in the determination of the application for approval; and
“brand-name product” means a variant of a master product or sister product which differs therefrom only in the name of the product (and in the marking and literature), where the application for approval is made in reliance upon the approval of the product from which it is derived,
and the application fees specified in Schedule 1 hereto in relation to a sister product or a brand-name product shall be payable whether application for the approval thereof is made at the same time as, or subsequently to, the application for the approval of the master product.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1875/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunication-apparatus-approval-fees-british-approvals-board-for-telecommunications-order-1992/article-3
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