Employment Permits Act 2006 (Prescribed Fees and Miscellaneous Procedures) Regulations, 2006

• Jurisdiction: Ireland

S.I. No. 683 of 2006

Employment Permits Act 2006 (Prescribed Fees and Miscellaneous Procedures) Regulations 2006

I, Micheál Martin, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 30 of the Employment Permits Act 2006 (No.16 of 2006), hereby make the following regulations : 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Permits Act 2006 (Prescribed Fees and Miscellaneous Procedures) Regulations 2006 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2007. 2. In these Regulations “Act of 2006” means the Employment Permits Act 2006 (No.16 of 2006). 3. A fee of an amount of €1,000 is prescribed in respect of an application for an employment permit under section 4 of the Act of 2006. 4. A fee of an amount of €1,500 is prescribed in respect of an application for a renewal of an employment permit under section 20 of the Act of 2006. 5. (1) Notwithstanding anything in Regulation 3 or 4, a fee of an amount specified in the determination referred to in paragraph (2), being an amount that is lesser than that specified in Regulation 3 or 4, as the case may be, may accompany the application referred to in Regulation 3 or 4, as appropriate, if the application falls within the following class of application.

(2) That class of application is one determined from time to time by the Minister (which determination the Minister is, by virtue of this Regulation, empowered to make) to be a class of application that may be accompanied by a fee of an amount that the Minister specifies in the determination.

(3) The amount that may be so specified may, if the Minister thinks it appropriate to specify such an amount, be a nil amount.

(4) More than one class of application may be determined for the purposes of paragraph (2) and a different amount may be specified in a determination in respect of one such class from that specified in a determination in respect of another such class.

(5) Any determination under this Regulation shall be in writing and be published by the Minister in such manner as the Minister thinks fit.

(6) A fee that accompanies an application referred to in Regulation 3 or 4 may be refunded to the applicant if the application is withdrawn before the issue of the employment permit granted or renewed on foot of the application.

(7) The portion of 100% is prescribed for the purposes of section 12(5) of the Act of 2006. 6. (1) An application referred to in Regulation 3 or 4 shall...