
1 
This Order may be cited as the Telecommunication Meters (Approval Fees) (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.
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In this Order—
 “the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984;
 “application fee” has the meaning given by article 3(a) below;
 “approval” means approval of a meter under section 24 of the Act;
 “BABT” means the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications;
 “continuation fee” has the meaning given by article 3(b) below;
 “licensee” means a particular person to whom a licence has been granted under section 7 of the Act being a licence to which section 8 of the Act applies;
 “man-hour” includes a period of half a man-hour or more but less than a complete man-hour, any period of less than half a man-hour being disregarded for the purposes of calculating the fees payable pursuant to this Order;
 “meter” has the meaning given by section 24(15) of the Act; and
 “tax invoice” means an invoice provided by BABT in accordance with the requirements of Part III of the Value Added Tax (General) Regulations 1985 to the person by whom a fee is payable pursuant to article 3 of this Order.
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This Order shall apply to the fees to be paid to BABT—
(a) in respect of exercising the function of considering applications for approval received on or after 6th April 1992 (which includes, without prejudice to the generality thereof, the appraisal of licensees' meters and assessment against the standard designated by the Director under section 24(6)(b) of the Act), by a person applying for such approval (such fee being referred to in this Order as an “application fee”); and
(b) where an approval specifies pursuant to section 24(4) of the Act a condition which must be complied with if the approval is to apply, imposing on the person to whom the approval is given a requirement from time to time to satisfy BABT with respect to any matter, by that person in respect of the exercise on or after 6th April 1992 of the function of being satisfied that that requirement is being complied with (such fee being referred to in this Order as a “continuation fee”).
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(1) The fees to be paid to BABT in respect of both application fees and continuation fees shall be calculated and paid in accordance with the following provisions of this article.
(2) The fees shall be the sum of—
(a) an amount calculated at the rate of £43.24 per man-hour taken by BABT in exercising the relevant function; and
(b) an amount equal to the value added tax chargeable on the supply of exercising that function.
(3) For the purposes of this article, the value of the supply of exercising the relevant function by reference to which value added tax is chargeable shall be the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) above.
(4) The fees shall be paid on delivery by BABT of a tax invoice monthly in arrears.
John Redwood
Department of Trade and Industry
11th March 1992