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Consular Fees Act 1980

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 12 Cited in Amendments 64 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1980 c. 23
Year1980
(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 Consular 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.the expenses that will be or have been incurred in doing that thing, both in the circumstances in relation to which the fee is prescribed and in other circumstances;the expenses that will be or have been incurred in doing such other things in the exercise of functions mentioned in that subsection as She thinks fit;expenses that will be or have been incurred by the Secretary of State in connection with arrangements made for purposes connected with both the exercise of such functions and provision made by or under the Identity Cards Act 2006; andsuch differences between different persons in relation to whom things may be or have been done as She thinks fit.to make different provision for different cases;to make provision subject to such exemptions and exceptions as the person exercising the power thinks fit; andto make such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional

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