The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2003

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to corrects errors in SI 2003/1871 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2920

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2003

Made

13th November 2003

Coming into force

14th November 2003

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of November 2003

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 1(1) of the Consular Fees Act 1980(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 14th November 2003.

2.  The Consular Fees (No.2) Order 1999(2) shall be amended at Fee 13(b)(ii), set out in Part II of the table of consular fees in the Schedule annexed to that Order, by replacing the words “fast-track service” with the words “fast-track collect service”.

A K Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order corrects an error, introduced by the Consular Fees Order 2003, in order to clarify that the fast-track collect service may be used when issuing a 48 page passport.

(1)

1980 c. 23.

(2)

S.I. 1999/3132 as amended by the Postal Services Act 2000 (consequential Modifications No.1) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1149), the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3498), the Consular Fees Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1627), the Consular Fees (No.2) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2634) and the Consular Fees Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1871).