The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 274 (S. 24)

ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ENSIGNS AND FLAGS

The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1991

made

12th February 1991

Laid before Parliament

27th February 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5 of, as read with paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1991 and shall come into force on lst April 1991.

2.  The fees payable in relation to the matters specified in Schedule B to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1867(2) (and repeated in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order) shall be varied by substituting those specified in column 3 of the Schedule to this Order (the fees formerly payable being shown in column 2).

3.  The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1990(3) is hereby revoked.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

12th February 1991

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Matter to which fee relates	(Fee formerly payable)	(Fee payable)
	£	£
On every patent of arms with supporters	547.00	602.00
On every patent of arms without supporters	340.00	374.00
On every matriculation of arms with supporters, without a new patent	186.00	205.00
On every matriculation of arms without supporters, without a new patent	140.00	154.00
On every matriculation of arms without a new patent of arms, but with a patent of supporters	347.00	433.00
On every genealogy recorded	115.00	127.00
Additional for each member of the pedigree	4.00	4.50
Certificate regarding change of surname	41.00	45.00
Search in register of arms	4.00	4.50
Search in register of genealogies	7.00	7.00
General search in heraldic MSS	37.00	40.00
General search in genealogical MSS	37.00	40.00
On every extract from a register	8.00	9.00
On entering a caveat	24.00	26.00
On admission of a messenger-at-arms to practise in the district of Edinburgh	125.00	137.00
On admission of messenger-at-arms to practise out of the district of Edinburgh	109.00	120.00
Annual dues of a messenger-at-arms practising in the district of Edinburgh	20.00	22.00
Annual dues of a messenger-at-arms practising out of the district of Edinburgh	20.00	22.00
On renewal of a messenger’s bond of caution	37.00	37.00
On recording resignation or change of residence of a messenger	4.00	4.50
On search for a messenger’s cautioner	4.00	4.00
On every certified statement of name and designation of such cautioner, and date of bond	7.00	7.00
On each petition or paper lodged in a process against a messenger	7.00	7.00
On each interlocutor in a process against a messenger	7.00	7.00
On extracting each warrant, decree, or precept of suspension, first sheet	8.00	9.00
On ditto, each subsequent sheet	4.00	4.50
On affixing seal of office to warrant, decree or precept	8.00	9.00
On examining executions of service and intimations of precepts of suspension, marking them on the record and giving out certificates	8.00	9.00
On lending process and taking receipt	4.00	4.50
On return of process and scoring receipt	4.00	4.50
On re-admission of a messenger-at-arms	24.00	26.00
On the appointment of a herald	10.00	10.00
On the appointment of a pursuivant	10.00	10.00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases most of the fees for the matters listed in Schedule B to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1867. The fees were last increased in 1990. These fees are exclusive of stamp duty when stamp duty is exigible.

(1)

1968 c. 14.

(2)

1867 c. 17; Schedule B was last amended by S. 1. 1990/441.

(3)

S.1. 1990/441.