Fees (Increase) Act 1923

5 Fees in respect of registration of business names

(1) There shall be payable for any search of the index kept under section twelve of the [6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 58.] Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, such fee as may be prescribed not exceeding one shilling for each name in respect of which a search is made, and the search fee hereby authorised shall be payable in addition to any fee chargeable under section sixteen of that Act for the inspection of documents.

(2) Section sixteen of the said Act (which prescribes, amongst other things, the maximum fees payable for certificates of registration and certified copies of, or extracts from, registered statements) shall have effect as though for the words " sixpence for each folio of " seventy-two words, or in Scotland for each sheet of " two hundred words, of the entry, copy, or extract," there were substituted the words " one shilling for any other entry, copy, or extract. "

(3) One pound shall be substituted for five shillings as the maximum fee payable under section seventeen of the said Act in respect of the registration of any one statement.