The Consular Fees Order 2012
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of March 2012
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
1.
This Order may be cited as the Consular Fees Order 2012 and comes into force on 6th April 2012.
2.
In this Order—
“consular officer” means any person authorised by the Secretary of State to exercise consular functions, or functions in the United Kingdom which correspond with consular functions (including persons who are not, as well as persons who are, consular officers);
“consular employee” means any person in the administrative or technical service of the consular post or diplomatic mission;
“consular premises” means the building or parts of buildings used for the purposes of the consular post or diplomatic mission;
“direct costs” means expenses that are incidental to the performance of a service, such as the cost of posting documents to a customer’s home address or travel costs;
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“overseas service” in relation to legalisation means the service for the processing by consular officers at consular posts of applications made in person;
“premium service” in relation to legalisation means the same day service for the processing by a London legalisation office dedicated for companies, solicitors and notaries of applications made in person;
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“standard service” in relation to legalisation means the twenty-four hours service for the processing by the main legalisation office at Milton Keynes, of applications made in person at that office and the processing by that office of postal applications within a reasonable time period.
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The fees set forth in the table in F3Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order are prescribed to be levied by consular officers and by F4marriage officers under the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 or registration officers under the Consular Marriages and Marriages under Foreign Law (No. 2) Order 2014 in the execution of each of their functions specified in F3that table.
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The statutory instruments listed in Schedule 2 to this Order are revoked by this Order.
SCHEDULE 1
PART 1F5TABLE OF GENERAL CONSULAR FEES
Fee | £ | ||
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I. LEGALISATION | |||
F61. | Legalising a signature or seal— | ||
(i) | Standard Service in the UK | 45.00 | |
(ii) | Standard service in the UK (Next Day) | 40.00 | |
(iii) | Digital (e-Apostille) | 35.00 | |
(iv) | Urgent Service in the UK | 100.00 | |
(v) | Overseas service (in addition to direct costs, if any) | 40.00 | |
II. NOTARIAL AND RELATED MATTERS | |||
2. | Preparing any certificate, declaration or document not listed elsewhere in this table | ||
(i) | in English | 50.00 | |
(ii) | in any other language | 50.00 | |
3. | Signing a declaration of existence (except if required by a department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom) | 25.00 | |
4. | Administering an oath, declaration or affirmation | 50.00 | |
5. | Witnessing a signature | 25.00 | |
6. | Certifying a copy of a document | 25.00 | |
7. | Uniting documents and Marking of Exhibits | 25.00 | |
8. | Supplying certified copies of documents which form part of the records of a court which is, or was formerly, established under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts 1890 and 1913, for each page | 50.00 | |
III. NATIONALITY | |||
9. | Administering an oath of British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981 | 100.00 | |
IV. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS AND DEATHS | |||
10. | Receiving notice of an intended marriage, civil partnership or overseas relationship | 50.00 | |
11. | Issuing a certificate that no impediment to an intended marriage or civil partnership has been shown to exist, or issuing any local equivalent document for an intended marriage or overseas relationship in accordance with local law | ||
(i) | in English | 50.00 | |
(ii) | in any other language | 50.00 | |
12. | Solemnising and administering oaths for consular marriage; or registering F7a civil partnership; or converting a civil partnership into marriage F8; or converting a marriage into a civil partnership under Part 4 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020”. | 150.00 | |
13. | Administering an application for the registration of a birth or a death | 150.00 | |
14. | Making an addition to or correction in the consular register as necessary | 25.00 | |
15. | Issuing a certified copy of an entry in the consular register | 50.00 | |
16. | Making a search in | ||
(i) the consular register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships where the number or date of entry is not provided | 50.00 | ||
(ii) the naturalisation, registration or renunciation records kept by a consular officer | 50.00 | ||
V. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS | |||
17. | Forwarding a request to a local authority for the taking of evidence or the service of a document (including effecting service of a document in relation to proceedings in which state immunity is in issue), and returning any evidence received of service or attempted service of a document (provided by F9the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in proceedings where state immunity is in issue) | 150.00 | |
VI. MARITIME SERVICES | |||
18. | Providing or administering a service not otherwise covered in this Schedule in relation to shipping, seamen and related matters, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any | 150.00 | |
VII. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE | |||
19. | Administering an application for, and, if successful providing, an Emergency Travel Document F10(in addition to direct costs, if any) | F11125.00 | |
20. | Exceptionally, administering an application for, and, if successful, providing an Emergency Passport, on occasions when it is not possible to provide an Emergency Travel Document F12(in addition to direct costs, if any) | F13125.00 | |
21. | Arranging, exceptionally, for currency to be made available against the deposit of funds | ||
(i) £0.01-£99.99 | 10.00 | ||
(ii) £100.00-£499.99 | 25.00 | ||
(iii) £500.00or more | 50.00 | ||
VIII. OTHER SERVICES | |||
22. | Providing the services of a consular officer or a consular employee in relation to any other service which the consular post or diplomatic mission has agreed to undertake, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any | 150.00 | |
F14IX. MULTILINGUAL STANDARD FORMS | |||
23. | Issuing a multilingual standard form | 11.00 | |
F15PART 2TABLE OF CONSULAR FEES RELATING TO PASSPORT SERVICES
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SCHEDULE 2
Statutory Instruments revoked | References |
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Consular Fees Order 2011 | |
Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2011 |
This Order revokes and replaces the Consular Fees Order 2011 as amended by the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2011.
The Order sets out fees to be charged for consular services.
While the Order does not increase any of the fees above the levels that were set by the Consular Fees Order 2011 (as amended), the Order removes and rewords certain of the fees in Part 1 of Schedule I as follows:
the fee for fixing a photograph to a document and, if necessary, certifying it as a true likeness (formerly Fee 8) has been removed;
the fee for forwarding an application for registration, naturalisation or renunciation to the Home Office (formerly Fee 10) has been removed;
the fee for issuing a certificate that no impediment to an intended marriage or civil partnership has been shown to exist, or issuing any local equivalent document for an intended marriage or overseas relationship in accordance with local law (either in English or in the local language spoken at the place of the consular post or diplomatic mission) (formerly Fee 13), has been redrafted to replace the references to “Nulla Ostas” and “certificates de coutume” with the term “any local equivalent document”;
the fee for forwarding a request to a local authority for the taking of evidence or the service of a document and returning any evidence received of service or attempted service of a document replaces three separate fees under the Consular Fees Order 2011(formerly Fees 19, 20 and 21) with a single fee of £130;
the fee for providing or administering a service not otherwise covered in this Schedule in relation to shipping, seamen and related matters has been amended to include travel time in the calculation of the charge for providing maritime services.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.