Companies Act 1976

37 Fees payable to registrar

(1) The Secretary of State shall have power by regulations made by statutory instrument to require the payment to the registrar of companies of such fees as may be specified in the regulations in respect of—

(a) the performance by the registrar of such functions under the Companies Acts as may be so specified, including the receipt by him of any notice or other document which under those Acts is required to be given, delivered, sent or forwarded to him ;

(b) the inspection of documents kept by him under those Acts.

(2) A statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section requiring the payment of a fee in respect of a matter for which no fee was previously payable or increasing a fee shall be laid before Parliament after being made and shall cease to have effect at the end of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which the regulations were made (but without prejudice to anything previously done under the regulations or to the making of further regulations) unless at some time before the end of that period the regulations are approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

In reckoning the period of twenty-eight days mentioned in this subsection no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

(3) A statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section, not being regulations to which subsection (2) above applies, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) Section 425(1) of the Act of 1948 and section 48 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Act of 1967 (which specify fees payable to the registrar in respect of certain matters) shall cease to have effect.

(5) Section 425(2) of the Act of 1948 (which provides for the payment into the Consolidated Fund of all fees payable to the registrar in pursuance of that Act) shall apply to fees payable to him in pursuance of this Act.

(6) It is hereby declared that the registrar may charge a fee for any services provided by him otherwise than in pursuance of an obligation imposed on him by law.