The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, make and from time to time revise a scheme prescribing—
and it shall be a condition of any such consent that any applicable prescribed charge is paid in accordance with that scheme.
A scheme under this section may, in particular—
The Secretary of State shall so frame a scheme under this section as to secure, so far as practicable, that the amounts payable under it will be sufficient, taking one financial year with another, to cover the expenditure of the Secretary of State in discharging his functions under this Part in relation to consents.
The Secretary of State shall, on making or revising a scheme under this section, lay a copy of the scheme or of the scheme as revised before each House of Parliament.
The Scottish Ministers may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, provide in a scheme under this section for any functions under the scheme to be performed by a Minister of the Crown or government department where they consider it expedient to do so in relation to assimilated law which implemented Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council .