The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made: 24th September 1998

Coming into force: 19th October 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 4(2) and 5 of the Reservoirs Act 1975¹, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 19th October 1998.

Application fees

2

Regulation 2 of the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) Regulations 1992² shall be amended as follows–

• (a) in paragraph (1), after “Environment” insert “, Transport and the Regions”;

• (b) in paragraph (2)(a), for “£230” substitute “£300”; and

• (c) in paragraph (2)(b), for “£185” substitute “£250”.

Revocation

3

The Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Application Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1994³ are hereby revoked.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Alan Meale — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 11th September 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 15th September 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Scotland

Sewel — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 24th September 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Reservoirs (Panels of Civil Engineers) (Applications and Fees) Regulations 1992, which prescribe the manner in which a civil engineer may apply to be appointed or reappointed to an existing panel of civil engineers set up for the purposes of the Reservoirs Act 1975, and the fee to accompany such an application, by increasing the fee for a first appointment from£230 to £300, and in other cases from £185 to £250. They also revoke previous regulations dealing with fees in relation to appointments to those panels.

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