Search Legislation

Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989

 Help about what version

What Version

 Help about advanced features

Advanced Features

 Help about opening options

Opening Options

Changes over time for: Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989

 Help about opening options

Alternative versions:

Changes to legislation:

There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989. Help about Changes to Legislation

Close

Changes to Legislation

Revised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.

Legislation Crest

Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989

1989 CHAPTER 27

An Act to substitute new provisions for section 18 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985; to amend section 19 of that Act; and for connected purposes.

[27th July 1989]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Payments for general purposes of Part III of Food and Environment Protection Act 1985.U.K.

(1)The following section shall be substituted for section 18 of the M1Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”)—

18 Payments for general purposes of Part III.

(1)Either of the Ministers may require an applicant for the approval of a pesticide under this Part of this Act, on making his application, to pay a fee as a contribution to the cost of handling and evaluating it.

(2)Either of the Ministers may require payments by such persons as he considers appropriate in respect—

(a)of the balance of the cost of handling and evaluating applications for approval;

(b)of the collection of information under section 16(11) above and the processing of information supplied under that subsection; and

(c)of monitoring the effect of the use of pesticides in the United Kingdom.

(3)Amounts to be paid under this section shall be determined on principles settled by the Ministers with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with organisations appearing to the Ministers to represent persons who are likely to apply for approvals.

(4)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) above, the Ministers may settle that any such amount is to be calculated by reference to either or both of the following—

(a)the United Kingdom turnover during a specified period of a pesticide to which an approval relates; or

(b)the United Kingdom turnover during a specified period of all pesticides to which approvals held by the person who is to make the payment relate.

(5)Any such amount may be calculated in such manner as the Minister to whom it is to be paid considers reasonable—

(a)if insufficient evidence of turnover is submitted for the calculations that would be required under subsection (4) above; or

(b)if no evidence is submitted for those calculations.

(6)Either of the Ministers may permit payment by instalments, and arrange for the refund, adjustment, set-off, waiver or reduction of the whole or part of a payment, in such cases as he may determine.

(7)If an amount payable by any person in respect of an approval is unpaid, the Ministers may suspend the approval, until that amount is paid, to such extent as they consider appropriate and, without prejudice to the generality of this subsection, to the extent that it authorises him to sell the pesticide.

(8)All payments under this section are payments for the general purposes of this Part of this Act and may be used accordingly.

(2)The following subsection shall be inserted after section 16(13) of the 1985 Act—

(13A)If either of the Ministers does anything by virtue of this Part of this Act in consequence of a failure on the part of any person to comply with regulations, he may recover from that person expenses reasonably incurred by him in doing it.

(3)In section 25(2)(b)—

(a)“, 16(13A)” shall be inserted after “and (l),”; and

(b)“18(3)” shall be omitted.

(4)There shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund any increase attributable to this section in the sums falling to be paid into that Fund under section 23(3) of the 1985 Act.

Marginal Citations

2 Enforcement.U.K.

(1)The following subsections shall be substituted for subsection (1) of section 19 of the 1985 Act—

(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, the powers conferred by this section (including Schedule 2 to this Act) (“the enforcement powers”) may be exercised—

(a)by a person whom either of the Ministers has by instrument in writing authorised to exercise them; or

(b)by an officer of a local authority who is authorised to exercise them under subsection (1C) below.

(1A)An instrument issued under subsection (1)(a) above may provide that the person to whom it is issued may only exercise the enforcement powers for specified purposes.

(1B)Either of the Ministers may specify descriptions of local authority officers who may be authorised to exercise the enforcement powers but may direct that an officer of a particular description may only be authorised to exercise them for specified purposes.

(1C)If either of the Ministers specifies a description of local authority officers under subsection (1B) above, a local authority may by instrument in writing authorise any of its officers falling within that description to exercise the enforcement powers.

(1D)The following provisions of this Act are to be construed in reference to a person authorised to exercise the enforcement powers as subject to the terms of the instrument which authorises him to exercise them.

(2)The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (7) of that section—

(8)In this section “local authority” means—

(a)any local authority, as defined in the Local Government Act 1972, except a parish or community council;

(b)any local authority, as defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;

(c)a district council in Northern Ireland; and

(d)a port health authority.

(3)Nothing in this section affects an authorisation under section 19 of the 1985 Act which was given before this section came into force.

3 Citation and commencement.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989.

(2)Section 2 above shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day this Act is passed.

Back to top

Options/Help

Print Options

Close

Legislation is available in different versions:

Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.

Original (As Enacted or Made): The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.

Close

See additional information alongside the content

Geographical Extent: Indicates the geographical area that this provision applies to. For further information see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.

Show Timeline of Changes: See how this legislation has or could change over time. Turning this feature on will show extra navigation options to go to these specific points in time. Return to the latest available version by using the controls above in the What Version box.

Close

Opening Options

Different options to open legislation in order to view more content on screen at once

Close

More Resources

Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:

  • the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
  • lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
  • confers power and blanket amendment details
  • all formats of all associated documents
  • correction slips
  • links to related legislation and further information resources
Close

Timeline of Changes

This timeline shows the different points in time where a change occurred. The dates will coincide with the earliest date on which the change (e.g an insertion, a repeal or a substitution) that was applied came into force. The first date in the timeline will usually be the earliest date when the provision came into force. In some cases the first date is 01/02/1991 (or for Northern Ireland legislation 01/01/2006). This date is our basedate. No versions before this date are available. For further information see the Editorial Practice Guide and Glossary under Help.

Close

More Resources

Use this menu to access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:

  • the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
  • correction slips

Click 'View More' or select 'More Resources' tab for additional information including:

  • lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
  • confers power and blanket amendment details
  • all formats of all associated documents
  • links to related legislation and further information resources