Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Provision of Services) Act, 1993

Regulations fixing fees.

3.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations fixing the fees to be charged for such services as are specified in such regulations when rendered by a person to whom section 2 of this Act applies.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations fixing the fees to be charged by persons to whom section 5 of this Act applies in respect of the administering, taking or doing of any oath, affidavit or notarial act authorised by that section to be administered, taken or done by them.

(3) Regulations made under this section may differentiate between different classes of persons to whom this Act applies and between different countries and places.

(4) Regulations made under this section may also provide for—

(a) the waiver in specified circumstances of any fee fixed by those regulations or by any other regulations made under this section,

(b) subject to section 4 of this Act, any other matter or thing relating to fees to be charged by virtue of this section.

(5) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent 21 days on which such House has sat after such regulation is laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.