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PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the Collection, either in money or by
stamps, of fees payable in Public Offices.{1}
[15th August 1879]
Short title.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 2
Mode of collecting fees payable in public offices.

2. The fees payable in any public office shall be collected either
in money or by means of stamps, or partly in one way and partly
in the other way, according as may be from time to time directed
by order of the Treasury.

Every such order shall be published in the London Gazette, and
shall come into operation on the date of such publication or any
later date mentioned in the order.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 3
Regulations by Treasury.

3. The Treasury may from time to time make, and when made revoke,
alter, and add to, regulations for all or any of the following
purposes respecting fees in any public office; that is to say,

(1)Regulating the manner in which the fees, taken in money, are to
be taken, accounted for, and paid over:

(2)Determining the use of impressed or adhesive stamps, and the mode
of cancellation of adhesive stamps:

(3)Regulating the use of stamps and prescribing the application
thereof to documents from time to time in use, and requiring
documents to be used for the purpose of such stamps.

Any document which ought to bear a stamp in pursuance of any
regulations in force under this section shall not be received,
filed, used, or admitted in evidence unless or until it is properly
stamped within the time prescribed by the regulations, but if any
such document is, through mistake or inadvertence, received, filed,
or used without being properly stamped, the same may be stamped
under the direction of such court or person, and under such
conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations.

Any regulations under this Act, so far as they relate to the
office of any court of law, shall be made with the consent of the
Lord Chancellor.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 4
Saving for powers respecting alteration of fees.

4. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with any power of altering
or otherwise regulating the amount of any fees for the time being
payable in any public office, or of any salary or charge for the
time being payable out of such fees.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 5
Preparation and issue of stamps.

5. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall prepare and issue
stamps required for the purposes of this Act, and all enactments
relating to the forgery and counterfeiting of stamps under the
control of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and of dies or
paper for the same, and to the fraudulent use thereof, shall apply
in the case of stamps under this Act.

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall keep such separate accounts
of all moneys received in respect of stamps under this Act as the
Treasury from time to time direct.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 6
Application of fees.

6. Subject to the deduction of any expenses incurred by the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue in respect of the preparation and
issue of stamps, all moneys received by those Commissioners in
respect of stamps under this Act shall be applied as fees collected
under this Act.

All fees collected under this Act, when applicable by law to the
payment of salaries or other expenses or otherwise, shall be so
applied, but, save as aforesaid, shall be paid into the Exchequer,
and form part of the Consolidated Fund.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 7
Application of Act.

7. This Act shall apply to all fees, per-centages, and other sums
payable in or to any officer of any public office or department
the expenses of which are paid wholly or partly out of the
Consolidated Fund or moneys provided by Parliament, including the
offices connected with the Supreme Court of Judicature, courts of
bankruptcy, county courts, and other courts of law in the United
Kingdom, or payable to any officer who is paid wholly or partly
out of the Consolidated Fund or moneys provided by Parliament; and
the expression "fee" shall include all such per-centages and sums.

Provided that nothing in this Act shall apply

(1)to duties granted to Her Majesty and under the control of the
Commissioners of Customs or the Commissioners of Inland Revenue; or

(2)to any fees payable in either House of Parliament; or

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Fees.

PUBLIC OFFICES FEES ACT 1879 - SECT 8

8. ....

Para.(1) rep. by SLR 1894

(2)The fees to which this Act applies shall, until any order is
made under this Act with respect to those fees, continue to be
taken, applied, and accounted for in the existing manner in all
respects as if the enactments hereby repealed which relate thereto
were not repealed.






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