The Foreign Service Fees and Charges Act

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CHAPTER 354
THE FOREIGN SERVICE FEES AND CHARGES ACT
[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]
Arrangement of Sections
Section Title
1. Short title.
2. Power to fix fees and charges.
3. Fees or charges prescribed under other laws.

L LEGISLATION]
Arrangement of Sections
Section Title
1. Short title.
2. Power to fix fees and charges.
3. Fees or charges prescribed under other laws.

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1. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Service Fees and
Charges Act. 2.–(1) The Minister responsible for foreign affairs (hereinafter
referred to as the Minister) may, by order published in the
Gazette, prescribe the fees and charges which may be taken
or imposed for any matter or thing done by a foreign service
officer in the discharge of the duties or functions of his office
or of any other duties or functions which he may be authorised
to perform by virtue of his office. (2) All such fees and charges shall be levied, accounted
for and applied, and may be remitted, in accordance with
directions issued by the Minister. (3) A notice specifying the fees and charges prescribed by
an order made under this Act shall be conspicuously displayed
in the office of every mission and in every consular office, and
every person interested in the payment of any fee or charge to
a foreign service officer may inspect it. 3.

mission and in every consular office, and
every person interested in the payment of any fee or charge to
a foreign service officer may inspect it. 3.

When a fee or charge prescribed by an order under this Act
differs from a fee or charge fixed or prescribed for the same
matter or thing under any other written law, the fee or charge
which may be taken or imposed by a foreign service officer
shall be that prescribed under that order. Short title
Power to fix fees
and charges
Fees or charges
prescribed under
other laws
CHAPTER 354
THE FOREIGN SERVICE FEES AND CHARGES ACT
An Act to make provision for the fees and charges of foreign service officers. [9th December, 1961]
Ord. No. 45 of 1961
[R.L. Cap. 447]