Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Artificial Insemination (Cattle and Pigs) (Fees) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the principal cattle Regulations”means the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Animal Health) (England and Wales) Regulations 1985(1) and the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Animal Health) (Scotland) Regulations 1985(2);

“the principal pig Regulations”means the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (England and Wales) Regulations 1964(3) and the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964(4).

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.

(3) Expressions used in Schedule 1 or 2 in relation to a matter arising under any of the Regulations referred to in paragraph (1) above shall have the same meaning as in the Regulations under which the matter arises.

Payment of fees

3.—(1) There shall be paid in connection with the issue of licences and approvals under the principal cattle Regulations and the principal pig Regulations and in connection with tests and examinations carried out for the purposes of those Regulations—

(a)in the case of the matters arising under the principal cattle Regulations referred to in the first column of Schedule 1, the fees respectively set out in the second column of that Schedule opposite the references to those matters,

(b)in the case of the matters arising under the principal pig Regulations referred to in the first column of Schedule 2, the fees respectively set out in the second column of that Schedule opposite the references to those matters.

(2) The fees referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be paid to the appropriate Minister by the applicant or the licensee, as the case may be.

Refund of fees

4.  If an application under the principal cattle Regulations or the principal pig Regulations is withdrawn before determination of the application, the appropriate Minister shall refund to the applicant such proportion of any fee paid under regulation 3 in respect of that application as the appropriate Minister thinks fit, having regard to any reasonable costs incurred by him in connection with the application.