Fees (Increase) Act 1923 (repealed 1.5.1994)

1 Increase of certain fees under Merchant Shipping Acts. U.K.

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Provided that no fees shall be payable under section three of the M1 Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898, in respect of vessels not exceeding ten tons gross register employed solely in fishing.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words (a) provide for amendments of Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898 (c. 44) specified in Sch. 1 Pt. I; (b) residue repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), Sch. 3

F2 S. 1(2) repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), Sch. 3

Marginal Citations

M1 1898 c. 44.

2 Charge of new fees for certain services under the Merchant Shipping Acts. U.K.

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(3) On the inspection of a ship—

(a) under section four hundred and thirty-one of the M2 Merchant Shipping Act 1894, either during the construction of the ship or otherwise, for the purpose of seeing that the ship is properly provided, in accordance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1921, or any rules made thereunder, with life-saving appliances; . . . F5

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there shall be paid in respect of the inspection such fees as the Board of Trade may determine . . . F5

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Textual Amendments

F3 S. 2(1) repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 57(5)

F4 S. 2(2)(4) repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (c. 36), Sch. 5

F5 Words repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), Sch. 3

F6 S. 2(3)(b) repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), Sch. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)

Marginal Citations

M2 1894 c. 60.

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Textual Amendments

F7 S. 3 repealed by Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1926 (c. 9), Sch. 4

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Textual Amendments

F8 S. 4 repealed by Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (c. 32), s. 26, Sch. 3

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Textual Amendments

F9 S. 5 repealed by Companies Act 1981 (c. 62, SIF 27), s. 119, Sch. 4

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Textual Amendments

F10 S. 6 repealed by Weights and Measures Act 1963 (c. 31), Sch. 9 Pt. I

7 Fees for licences to remove bodies after burial. U.K.

(1) Where a Secretary of State issues a licence under section twenty-five of the M3 Burial Act 1857, for the removal of any body, or the remains of any body, which has been interred in any place of burial, there shall be payable in respect of the licence such fee, not exceeding [F11 twenty pounds], as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, may prescribe.

(2) Where in connexion with the removal of any such body or remains, any officer of any local authority, with the consent of the authority and in pursuance of any conditions attached to the licence by the Secretary of State, performs any duties, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to pay to the local authority any part of the fee received by him in connexion with such removal.

Textual Amendments

F11 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1739, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Power to amend s. 7 conferred by Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 (c. 14), s. 5(1), Sch. 3

Marginal Citations

M3 1857 c. 81.

8 Power to fix fees for matters done by officers of Foreign Office in Great Britain. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F12 S. 8 repealed by Consular Fees Act 1980 (c. 23, SIF 99:5), s. 1(5)

9 Fees for holding inquiries. U.K.

Where under any Act of Parliament a government department is authorised or required to hold an inquiry, and the costs of the inquiry are made payable by any local authority or other person, or in such manner and by such persons as the department or the officer holding the inquiry may direct, then, notwithstanding anything in such Act, such costs may include a fee in respect of the services of any officer of the department engaged in the inquiry not exceeding [F13 £30] a day.

Textual Amendments

F13 Words substituted by S.I. 1968/656

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Textual Amendments

F14 S. 10 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)

11 Short title, construction and extent. U.K.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Fees (Increase) Act 1923.

(2) This Act, so far as it amends the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1921, shall be construed as one with those Acts, and those Acts and this Act so far as it amends those Acts may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1923.

(3) This Act, so far as it relates to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has not power to make laws, shall extend to Northern Ireland.