No. 149/1936:

LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1936.

LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that the Minister for Finance may from time to time make regulations for certain purposes respecting fees in any public office, and amongst others for the purpose of regulating the manner in which such fees taken in money, are to be taken, accounted for, and paid over, and that any such regulations so far as they relate to the office of any court of law shall be made with the consent of the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State:

AND WHEREAS the office of every county registrar is a public office and an office of a court of law within the meaning of the said Act:

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act (Collection of Fees) Order, 1936 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 148 of 1936), fees payable in the office of every county registrar under sub-section (4) of Section 26, sub-section (4) of Section 30, and sub-section (4) of Section 49 respectively of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 (No. 55 of 1931), are to be collected in money:

NOW, the Minister for Finance, with the consent of the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State testified by his signature to these regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Act (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1936.

2. The Interpretation Act. 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. Fees taken in the office of a county registrar under sub-section (4) at Section 26, sub-section (4) of Section 30, or sub-section (4) of section 49 of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 (No. 55 of 1931), shall be taken in the form of a Post Office money order payable to the Paymaster-General at the General Post Office, Dublin, and crossed "/& Co./," or in the form of a banker's draft, payable to the credit of the account of the Paymaster-General.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 13th day of May, 1936.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT.

I consent to the foregoing Regulations.

(Signed) AODH UA CINNÉIDIGH.

Chief Justice of the Irish Free State.