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. 2128

3 June 2022

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Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

I Mr. Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Minerals Resources 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 increase of 5.7% for the financial year (2022-23).

The fees shall be payable to the National Nuclear Regulator of South Africa, for the period of 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 by the licensed holders concerned.

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Mr. Gwede Mantashe, MP

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy

Date:

The fees payable by new applicants to the Nuclear Regulator for its regulatory services have increase from an hourly rate of R2,205 for 2021-22 financial year to an hourly rate of R2,331 for the 2022-23 financial year.

Authorisation fees shall be billed annually in advance and payment of such fees shall be due within thirty (30) days of issuance of 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.

Facilities	Type of Facility	Number of authorisation holders per category	Authorisation fees for the 2021-22 financial year per licenced holder.	Authorisation fees for the 2022-23 financial year per licenced holder @ 6,5%	Total as per NNR proposed fees of 6,5% for the 2022-23 financial year	Recommended increase by the DMRE @ 5,7%	Total fees as per the recommended increase in line with the CPI
Category 1	Small users, laboratories and refurbishes	42	R67,713	R72,115	R3,028,830	R71,573	R3,006,066
Category 2	Scrap processors, scrap smelter and service providers	32	R84,642	R90,144	R2,884,608	R89,467	R2,862,944
Category 3	Fertilizers and other lesser mining and mineral processing facilities	4	R473,998	R504,807	R2,019,228	R501,016	R2,004,064
Category 4	Medium operators and other lesser mining and mineral processing facilities	31	R541,347	R576,535	R17,872,585	R572,204	R17,738,324
Category 5	Large operators which include major mining and mineral processing facilities	10	R1,286,565	R1,370,191	R13,701,910	R1,359,899	R13,598,990
Total		119	R2,454,265	R2,613,792	R39,507,161	R2,594,159	R39,210,388

Eskom KNPS -normal operation			R93,801,884	R99,899,006	R99,899,006	R99,148,591	R99,148,591
Eskom KNPS -Steam generator replacement			R22,911,992	R24,401,272	R24,401,272	R24,217,975	R24,217,975
Eskom -Thyspunt- Nuclear installation site license application			R9,637,957	R10,264,424	R10,264,424	R10,187,321	R10,187,321
Eskom - Long Term Operation application			R14,037,957	R14,950,424	R14,950,424	R14,838,121	R14,838,121
Necsa -Pelindaba			R49,456,726	R52,671,413	R52,671,413	R52,275,759	R52,275,759
Necsa- Vaalputs			R7,617,815	R8,112,973	R8,112,973	R8,052,030	R8,052,030
Total			R197,464,331	R210,299,512	R210,299,512	R208,719,798	R208,719,798
Accumulated fees			R199,918,596	R212,913,305	R249,806,686	R211,313,957	R247,930,186

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. 2128 of 2022