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Fees for trading standards services

The fees below are valid from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009

Please contact your local office with fee enquiries.

The fees below include VAT

GENERAL
1

Call out charge

(Trading Standards Officer & Assistant)

chargeable in addition to fees below unless otherwise stated.

 

£94
2

Hourly Rate

(Trading Standards Officer & Assistant)
£94
(minimum charge 1/4 hour)
3

Delays

(not caused by Trading Standards Staff)

chargeable at hourly rate
4

Out of Hours Working

(subject to staff availability)

Outside 8.00am to 5.00pm Mon to Fri - 60% to be added to fee and call out charge

Bank Holidays - 150% to be added to fee and call out charge (eg £100 fee becomes £250).
5

Certificate of errors on test of weighing /measuring equipment
£47.59

WEIGHTS (testing as fit for trade use)
1

Weights exceeding 5kg or not exceeding 500mg, 2CM

£11.75
2

Other weights
£10.58

MEASURES (testing as fit for trade use)
1.

Linear measures not exceeding 3m, for each scale.

Note 1: Longer measures will include an additional charge of 50% per 3m or part thereof.

Note 2: Some measures of length may need to be tested at Kent Scientific Services and a different fee may apply.

£12.34
2

Capacity measures without divisions not exceeding 1 litre or 1 quart

Note: Larger measures will include an additional charge of 50% per litre/quart or part thereof
£10.58
3

Cubic ballast measures (other than brim measures)
£207.39
4

Brim measures (unsubdivided) up to 1 cubic metre
£117.50
5

Liquid capacity measures for making up and checking average quantity packages
£32.90
6

Templets
Per scale - first item
£57.58
Second and subsequent items
£25.26

WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS (testing as fit for trade use)
1.

Not exceeding 1 tonne*
(Non-EC approved)
£47
(EC approved)
£82.25
Note: All weighing instruments exceeding 1 tonne capacity should be tested using the weighbridge test unit with the specialist equipment fee.
2.

Exceeding 1 tonne but not 10 tonnes*
(Non-EC approved)
£94.00
(EC approved)
£164.50
3.

Exceeding 10 tonnes*
(Non-EC approved)
£211.50
(EC approved)
£370.13
*NOTE: Where instruments incorporate remote display or printing facilities then the fee will be increased by 50%.
4.

Specialist Equipment Fee
Where a weighbridge test unit is provided by us to enable the weighing instrument to be tested:
Time on site of 4 hours or less (half day charge)
£376
Time on site exceeding 4 hours (full day charge)
£752
Where the office van and test weights are provided the charge per round trip necessary.

£105.16

MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR INTOXICATING LIQUOR (test as fit for trade use)
1.

Not exceeding 5 fl.oz or 140ml
£23.50
2.

Other

  

MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR LIQUID FUEL AND LUBRICANTS (test as fit for trade use)
1.

LFLO dispenser per meter/measuring container submitted

  
2.

Testing of peripheral electronic equipment on a later occasion than stamping of instrument


3.

Charge for each credit card acceptor unit tested irrespective of the number of card slots / nozzles/ pump housings it services.

For example - an MPD with an acceptor which accepts cards from each side authorising simultaneous deliveries constitutes ONE acceptor.		  
4.

LFLO dispenser submitted under the Measuring Instruments Directive regime

 

ROAD TANKER LIQUID FUEL MEASURING EQUIPMENT - ABOVE 100 LITRES (test as fit for trade use)
1.

Meter measuring systems

(will require use of item 3 below)

  
wet hose type with two testing liquids
  
jammed ticket printer (no replacement parts)
  
jammed ticket printer (no replacement parts)
  
2.

Dipstick Measuring systems
Replacement dipstick
first or single dipstick
  
each additional dipstick submitted at the same time.
  
3.

Specialist equipment fee

Where the bulk fuel testing van is provided by the Department to enable a meter system to be tested.

  

FEES FOR SERVICES

(For example, a report on the weight or measurement of any goods or the overall accuracy of any weighing or measuring equipment or environmental searches relating to disused petrol stations)

Fees will generally be based on the standard call out fee plus the hourly rate, and will normally be subject to VAT.
per hour
(min.charge quarter hour)

SPECIFIC SERVICES
1.

Merchant Shipping Act - Certification of a weighbridge operator

(Hourly rate not applicable)

Call-out fee plus

Operator fails (per operator)

  

Operator passes (per operator)

  

Supply of replacement certificate

(No call-out fee charged)

  

SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT
1.

Tyre pressure gauges in use by traders
per hour
2.

Tyre pressure gauges brought into office by members of the public.

No Charge

FEES FOR LICENSING

Petroleum/Explosives - Statutory fees set by H&SE - reviewed annually and laid down currently in the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations.
1.

Petroleum Spirit
Licence to keep petroleum spirit of a quantity:-
Not exceeding 2,500 litres
  
Exceeding 2,501 litres but not exceeding 50,000 litres
  
Exceeding 50,001 litres
  
Transfer of licence
  
2.

Explosives

  
A New Store Licence
 
Renewal of a Store Licence
  
New Registration
  
Renewal of Registration
 
Firework All year round licence
  
3

Poisons
Initial registration
 
Change in details
 
Re-registration
  
4

Performing Animals
Registration
  
5

Vehicles (Crime) Act Registrations
A sole proprietor
  
A partnership
  
A limited company
  

 

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