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An Act to re-enact with amendments so much of the Consular Salaries and Fees Act 1891 as relates to consular fees together with certain enactments amending that Act.
[1st May 1980]
(1)Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, prescribe the fees to be levied by persons authorised by the Secretary of State to exercise consular functions, or functions in the United Kingdom which correspond with consuler functions, for doing anything in the exercise of such functions.
(2)“Consular functions” means any of the functions described in Article 5 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations set out in Schedule 1 to the M1Consular Relations Act 1968 but subsection (1) above applies in relation to persons who are not as well as in relation to persons who are consular officers.
(3)All fees prescribed under subsection (1) above shall be levied, accounted for and applied, and may be remitted, in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument with the approval of the Treasury.
(4)Copies of or extracts from the table of fees so prescribed shall be exhibited in every office where such fees are levied.
(5)The following enactments (which are replaced by the foregoing provisions of this section) are hereby repealed, namely—
(a)the Consular Salaries and Fees Act 1891 M2;
(b)section 8 of the Fees (Increase) Act 1923 M3; and
(c)section 13(4) of the Consular Relations Act 1968 M4;
and in section 20 of the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 M5 and section 1(4) of the Marriage with Foreigners Act 1906 (which make consular fees chargeable for things done under those Acts) for the words “Consular Salaries and Fees Act 1891” there shall be substituted the words “Consular Fees Act 1980”.
C1The text of s. 1(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
P1S. 1: for previous exercises of power see Index to Government Orders
P2S. 1: s. 1(1) power exercised by S.I. 1991/996
S. 1: s. 1(1) power exercised by S.I. 1991/2291
S.1: s. 1(1) power exercised by S.I.1991/2629
M11968 c. 18.
M21891 c.36.
M31923 c.4.
M41968 c.18.
M51892 c.23
This Act may be cited as the Consular Fees Act 1980.
Consular Fees Act 1980