The Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 2012

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2012/1665
Year2012

2012 No. 1665

Public Records

The Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 2012

Made 20th June 2012

Coming into force 30th July 2012

The Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2(5) of the Public Records Act 19581:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 30th July 2012.

S-2 Fees

Fees

2.—(1) The Schedule to these Regulations prescribes, subject to sub-paragraph (3), the fees to be charged for authenticated copies or extracts from records under the charge of the Keeper of the Public Records and for other services afforded by officers of the Public Record Office.

(2) In the Schedule—

(a)

(a) where a fee is prescribed by reference to a period of time, the whole fee is payable in respect of an uncompleted period;

(b)

(b) where a fee is prescribed for a copy of an image by reference to a specified size, the size is that of the image to be copied and not that of the copy;

(c)

(c) where a fee is prescribed for a copy or photograph of a page of a record, the fee is payable for a copy or photograph of each individual side of a page which forms a record or part of a record;

(d)

(d) all fees are exclusive of value added tax.

(3) The Keeper of Public Records may remit a fee where the service performed or to be performed has been, or is likely to be, exceptionally simple.

S-3 Revocation

Revocation

3. The Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 20052are revoked.

Kenneth Clarke

Lord Chancellor

15th June 2012

Ministry of Justice

Angela Watkinson

James Duddridge

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

20th June 2012

SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Item

Fee (£)

Research

1

For undertaking research and sending the results to the requester, for each 15 minutes expended

16.67

Authenticated copies of naturalisation certificates

2

For making a copy of a naturalisation certificate that is a record and authenticating that copy by certification

25.00

Other copies of records

3.1

For making a monochrome paper copy at research quality of a page of a record up to and including size A3, using self-service equipment

0.25

3.2

Where a person requests any number of copies or photographs of no more than 100 different pages of records, for making:

(a) a monochrome paper copy at research quality of a page of a record up to and including size A3

1.00

(b) a colour paper copy at research quality of a page of a record:

(i) up to and including size A3

3.00

(ii) larger than size A3

13.00

(c) a colour digital copy at research quality of a page of a record:

(i) up to and including size A3

2.80

(ii) larger than size A3

10.00

(d) a colour photograph of a page of a record of any size

25.00

Bulk copies of records

4.1

Where a person requests any number of copies or photographs of a type described in item 3.2 of more than 100 different pages of records:

(a) for any necessary preparation of records prior to copying, in addition to the costs of any materials used in such preparation, for each 15 minutes expended

9.15

(b) for the production of the copies, in addition to the costs of the materials onto which copies are printed and any costs of delivering those copies to the requester, for each 15 minutes expended

11.70

(c) for checking the quality of the...

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