Notices > Notice in terms of section 28 of the National Nuclear Regulator Act, 1999 (Act No 47 of 1999), on fees for Nuclear Authorisations

Notice No. 19

15 January 2021

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Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

I Mr. Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Minerals and Energy acting under section 28 of the National Nuclear Regulator Act, 1999 (Act No. 47 of 1999), on the recommendation of the NNR Board and in consultation with the Minister of Finance and by notice in the Government Gazette hereby determine the fees contained in the attached schedule payable to the Regulator in respect of—

(a)	any application for the granting of a nuclear authorisation;

(b)	an annual nuclear authorisation fee for the financial year (2020-21)

The fees shall be payable to the National Nuclear Regulator of South Africa, for the period of 01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 by the licensed holders concerned.

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Mr. Gwede Mantashe, MP

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy

Date: 04/09/2020

Erratum to General Notice 516 of 2020, published in Government Gazette No. 43734 of 25 September 2020

The proposed fees payable by new applicants to the Nuclear Regulator for its regulatory services would increase from an hourly rate of R2, 029 for 2019-20 financial year to an hourly rate of R2, 120 instead of R2, 181 as gazetted.

From 2020/21 financial year, authorisation fees shall be billed annually in advance, and payment of such fees shall be due within thirty (30) days of the issuance of the invoice. Interest shall accrue on the outstanding amount after 30 days of the issuance of the invoice.

Furthermore, interest shall be calculated on the daily balance owing and compounded monthly. The interest rate determined by the Minister of Finance in terms of section 80 of the Public Finance Management Act 1999, (Act No. 1 of 1999) shall be applicable.

The erroneous proposed nuclear authorization fees are to be replaced by new CPI-adjusted nuclear fees depicted below
Facilities	Type of Facility	Number of authorisation holders per category	Authorisation fees for the 2019/20 financial year per licenced holder.	Authorisation fees for the 2020/21 financial year per licenced holder.	Total fees for the 2020/21 financial year
Category 1	Small users, laboratories and refurbishes	44	R62,305	R65,109	R2,864,796
Category 2	Scrap processors, scrap smelter and service providers	27	R77,882	R81,387	R2,197,438
Category 3	Fertilizers and other lesser mining and mineral processing facilities	5	R436,141	R455,767	R2,278,834
Category 4	Medium operators and other lesser mining and mineral processing facilities	41	R498,111	R520,526	R21,341,583
Category 5	Large operators which include major mining and mineral processing facilities	12	R1,183,810	R1,237,081	R14,844,977
Total		129	R2,258,249	R2,359,870	R43,527,628

Eskom KNPS -normal operation			R86,310,162	R90,194,119	R90,194,119
Eskom KNPS -Steam generator replacement			R21,082,069	R22,030,762	R22,030,762
Eskom -Thyspunt- Nuclear installation site license application			R17,736,395	R18,534,533	R18,534,533
Necsa -Pelindaba			R45,506,741	R47,554,544	R47,554,544
Necsa- Vaalputs			R7,009,400	R7,324,823	R7,324,823
Total			R177,644,767	R185,638,781	R185,638,781
Accumulated fees			R179,903,016	R187,998,651	R229,166,409

National Nuclear Regulator Act, 1999 (Act No. 47 of 1999)

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Notice in terms of section 28 of the National Nuclear Regulator Act, 1999 (Act No 47 or 1999) on fees for Nuclear Authorisations

Notice No. 19 of 2021