Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2327

FEES AND CHARGES

The Kimberley Process (Fees) Regulations 2003

Made

8th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

9th September 2003

Coming into force

1st October 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1973( 1 ) with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Kimberley Process (Fees) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

Interpretation

2. —(1) In these Regulations—

“Department” means the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and

“Principal Regulation” means Council Regulation 2 ) implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations, and which are also used in the Principal Regulation, shall have the meaning they bear in that Regulation.

Prescription of fees

3. The fees specified in column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed as the fees payable in connection with the services provided by the Department in pursuance of the United Kingdom’s Community obligations arising from Article 12 of the Principal Regulation, each fee specified in column 2 of that Schedule being the fee payable in connection with the service specified alongside that fee in column 1 of that Schedule.

Payment of fees

4. A fee payable under regulation 3 above shall be paid to the Department at the same time that the application to which it relates is made to the Department.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Denis MacShane

Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

15th August 2003

We consent to the making of these Regulations

N R Ainger

Joan Ryan

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th September 2003

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE PRESCRIBED FEES

Column 1	Column 2
Description of Service	Fee
1. Issue of a Community Certificate accompanying a shipment with a declared value of up to US$10,000	£5 per certificate
2. Issue of a Community Certificate accompanying a shipment with a declared value of between US$10,001 and US$100,000	£10 per certificate
3. Issue of a Community Certificate, accompanying a shipment with a declared value above US$100,000	£15 per certificate