The Bovine Embryo Collection and Transfer (Fees) Regulations 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/2920
• Sections: 14

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Embryo Collection and Transfer (Fees) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 21st December 1993.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Bovine Embryo Collection and Transfer Regulations 1993 .

Section 2 Payment of fees

(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 application in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) The holder of an approval under the principal Regulations shall pay the fee specified in paragraph 6, 7 or 8 of the Schedule to these Regulations when an examination specified there is carried out.

Section 3 Exceptions

No fee shall be payable under paragraph 4 of the Schedule to these Regulations if the premises are already licensed under regulation 7(1)(b) of the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Animal Health) (England and Wales) Regulations 1985 or regulation 7(1)(b) of the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Animal Health) (Scotland) Regulations 1985 .

Section 4 Reduction of fees

(1) Where an application requires the inspection of premises, and one applicant has applied for the inspection of more than one set of premises to be inspected at the same time which are within a radius of 5 miles of one another, the fee for the second and subsequent premises shall be reduced by £29 plus one third of the remainder of the sum that would otherwise have been payable.

(2) Where there is a fee payable under paragraph 6(1)(a), 6(2), 7 or 8(2) of the Schedule to these Regulations, and the examination for which the fee is payable is carried out at the same time as an examination for which a fee is payable under the Artificial Insemination (Cattle and Pigs) (Fees) Regulations 1987 , then the fee payable under these Regulations shall be reduced by £29 plus one third of the remainder of the sum that would otherwise have been payable.

Section 5 Refund of fees

If an application is withdrawn before it is determined, the appropriate Minister shall refund to the applicant the fee paid less a deduction of the costs already incurred in processing the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

Section 1

Application for approval as an embryo collection team under regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, or for joint approval as an embryo collection team and embryo transfer team under regulations 5 and 9 of those Regulations and–

Section 2 Approval of laboratory facilities

When the embryo collection team has already been approved, application for approval under regulation 5 of the principal Regulations of–

(a) one laboratory facility

Section 3 Approval as embryo collection team when laboratory facilities are already approved

Application for approval as an embryo collection team under Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations where laboratory facilities are already approved.

Section 4 Approval of storage premises under regulation 8(1)

Application for approval of storage premises under regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations–

(a) if the examination is carried out at the same time and on the same premises as an approval of an embryo collection team or embryo transfer team;

Section 5 Alterations to premises or facilities

Application for approval of an alteration to premises already approved under regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations or to facilities approved under regulation 5 or 9 of those Regulations.

Section 6 Routine examinations of collection teams or joint teams

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(1) Routine examination of the records and facilities of an approved embryo collection team or joint embryo collection and transfer team–

(a) if there is one laboratory facility on the site;

Section 7 Routine examinations of transfer teams

Routine examination of the records and facilities of an embryo transfer team

Section 8 Routine examinations of stores

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(1) Routine examination of a store approved under regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations and on the same site as facilities of an embryo collection team or embryo transfer team and examined at the same time as those facilities

Section 9 Approval of a transfer team

Application for approval as an embryo transfer team and facilities under regulation 9 of the principal Regulations