Public Offices Fees Act 1879
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1879 c. 58 |
| Year | 1879 |
Public Offices Fees Act, 1879.
(42 & 43 Vict.) CHAPTER 58.
An Act to provide for the Collection, either in money or by stamps, of Fees payable in Public Offices.
[15th August 1879]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as thePublic Offices Fees Act, 1879.
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 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (in this Act referred to as 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.
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) (1.) Regulating the manner in which the fees, taken in money, are to be taken, accounted for, and paid over:
(2) (2.) Determining the use of impressed or adhesive stamps, and the mode of cancellation of adhesive stamps:
(3) (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.
The regulations for the time being in force under this section shall apply to the office named in such regulations, and shall be binding on all courts, officers, and persons to whom those regulations refer, in the same manner as if they were enacted by this Act.
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...
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