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Gas safety fees revised
Various fees under the Gas Safety Ordinance will be revised on March 8, 1997 to reflect the increased costs of providing the services.
Three sets of regulations to this effect are gazetted today (Friday).
They are the Gas Safety (Gas Supply) (Amendment) Regulation 1997, Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Installers and Gas Contractors) (Amendment) Regulation 1997, and the Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) (Amendment) Regulation 1997.
The Gas Safety (Gas Supply) Regulations prescribe the fees payable in respect of application for approval of construction work on notifiable gas installations such as gasholders, plant and equipment for the manufacture of gas, high pressure gas mains and service pipes, and LPG stores; approval to use notifiable gas installations; and issue and annual renewal of permits for gas transport vehicles, i.e. road tankers and LPG cylinder wagons.
The Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Installers and Gas Contractors) Regulations prescribe the fees payable in respect of application for registration as a gas installer and a gas contractor.
The Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations prescribe the fee payable in respect of application for registration as a gas supply company.
The revised fees achieve full cost recovery at 1996-97 prices except the fee for renewal of permit for a LPG cylinder wagon, which is to be brought up to full cost recovery level over the next three years.
The increases range from 1.5% for the fee for request for approval to use of certain types of notifiable gas installation such as LPG terminals and plants for the manufacture of gas, etc. to 32% for the fee for application for registration as a gas supply company.
It is Government policy that fees should in general be set at levels sufficient to recover the full cost of providing the services. The fees were last increased on December 30, 1994.
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