FEES ORDINANCE (preamble—feesordinance)

FEES

CHAPTER 35

FEES ORDINANCE

To provide for the levying of fees for licenses, permits and other acts or

services in government offices or departments.

(26th June, 1905) *

Enacted by ORDINANCE X of 1905 as amended by Ordinances: II of

1906 and XXVIII of 1939; Emergency Ordinance XV of I958; Ordinance

XXV of 1962; Act XI of 1963; Legal Notice 46 of 1965; and Acts: XVII of

1967 and VI of 1986.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Fees Ordinance.

(1) A Minister charged with responsibility for any

government department or office may make regulations prescribing

the fees to be charged in such department or office or on behalf

thereof in respect of licences, permits or any other act or service

whatsoever, and may from time to time vary or amend such

regulations.

(2) Any such regulation, unless otherwise provided, shall have

effect from the date of its publication, and shall, as soon as may be,

be laid on the table of the House of Representatives.

(3) The power conferred by subarticle (1) and any other power

conferred by any other law to fix such fees as aforesaid shall be

exercisable with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for

finance.

The officer in charge of any public office or department,

required to do any act or service for which a fee is chargeable under

this Ordinance, may decline to do such act or service until the fee is

paid.

The fees prescribed by any such regulation shall, unless

otherwise provided, be recoverable in the manner laid down in the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, for the recovery of sums

due to a government department, on the demand or on behalf of the

officer to whom the fee is payable.

The competent Minister with the concurrence of the

Minister responsible for finance may by regulations direct that the

payment of all or any of the fees referred to in article 2, or of any of

the fees leviable under any other law in force, shall be denoted by

means of postage stamps in such manner as may be provided in

such regulations.

*See Proclamation No. X of 1905.

FEES

It shall be lawful for the competent Minister with the

concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance to reduce or

remit any fee to which this Ordinance refers when he is satisfied

that the payment of such fee would cause hardship to the person by

whom the fee is payable.