The Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) (Fees) Regulations 1995

Made: 21st September 1995

Laid before Parliament: 22nd September 1995

Coming into force: 13th October 1995

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 10(1) and (3)(c) of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury in accordance with section 10(3)(c) of the said Act of 1984, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) (Fees) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 13th October 1995.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) Regulations 1995[^f00002].

Payment of fees

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• (1) An applicant for any approval under the principal Regulations shall, at the time the application is made, pay to the appropriate Minister the fee specified for that approval in column 2 of paragraph 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

• (2) The holder of an approval under the principal Regulations shall pay the fee specified for an inspection in column 2 of paragraph 5 of the Schedule to these Regulations when an inspection specified there is carried out.

• (3) In so far as a fee was previously payable for such approval or inspection under the Bovine Embryo Collection and Transfer Regulations 1993[^f00003] (those Regulations being the predecessors to the principal Regulations) such fee is shown in column 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Reduction of fees

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• (1) Where more than one team share laboratory facilities and both teams are inspected for any purpose at the same time, the fee payable by each shall be reduced by the total of £10.00 plus one sixth of the lowest fee that would otherwise have been payable.

• (2) Where there is a fee payable for a routine inspection under these Regulations, and the inspection for which the fee is payable is carried out at the same time as an inspection for which a fee is payable under the Artificial Insemination (Cattle and Pigs) (Fees) Regulations 1987[^f00004], the fee payable under these Regulations shall be the total of two thirds of the full fee that would otherwise have been payable minus £19.

• (3) Where there is an application for approval as a collection team, production team or transfer team and the applicant is already approved as one of these teams and any inspection for a new approval is carried out at the same time as an inspection under the existing approval, the fee payable for the approval shall be the total of two thirds of the full fee that would otherwise have been payable minus £19.

• (4) Where a team is approved as more than one of a collection team, production team or transfer team at one time, only the fee payable for one approval shall be charged which shall be the highest fee in all cases.

Refund of fees

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If an application under the principal Regulations is withdrawn before it is determined, the appropriate Minister shall refund to the applicant the fee paid less a deduction of the costs already incurred in processing the application.

Revocation

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The Bovine Embryo Collection and Transfer (Fees) Regulations 1993[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Approval of bovine embryo collection or production teams and laboratories

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• (1) Approval as a bovine embryo collection team or production team where there is inspection of one laboratory

Approval as a bovine embryo transfer team

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Approval as a bovine embryo transfer team

Approval of storage premises

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• (1) Subject to the following paragraph, approval of a store for any purposes under the principal Regulations

Alterations to premises or facilities

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Application for approval of an alteration to premises or facilities already approved under the principal Regulations

Routine inspection relating to approved teams

5

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• (1) Routine inspection of the records of a team with up to one laboratory or store

Signed

Tony Baldry — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 21st September 1995

Lindsay — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office — 19th September 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 21st September 1995

We approve,

David Willetts — Bowen Wells — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 13th September 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations (which apply to England, Scotland and Wales) supersede the Bovine Embryo and Transfer (Fees) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2920). They set fees payable for services under the Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2478).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c. 40; the “appropriate Minister” referred to in section 10 is defined in section 10(8).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1995/2478.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1993/2921.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/390; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1992/2592.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1993/2920.