S.I. No. 737/2007 - Civil Registration (Marriages) (Fees) Regulations 2007
CIVIL REGISTRATION (MARRIAGES) (FEES) REGULATIONS 2007 | ||
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | ||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 13th November, 2007. | ||
I, MARY HARNEY, Minister for Health and Children, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3, 46(3), 61, and 67 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004) hereby make the following regulations: | ||
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Registration (Marriages) (Fees) Regulations 2007. | ||
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 5 November 2007. | ||
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— | ||
“Act” means the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004); | ||
“register” means the register of marriages established and maintained under and in accordance with section 13(1)(e) of the Act; | ||
“search dates” means the date on which the search for an entry in the register, or an index to the register, is to commence and to end. | ||
3. For the purposes of sections 61(1)(b) and 61(2)(b) of the Act— | ||
(a) the amount of €8 is prescribed as the fee for the giving of each copy of an entry in the register that is certified to be a true copy of that entry, and | ||
(b) the amount of €4 is prescribed as the fee for the giving of each copy of an entry in the register. | ||
4. For the purposes of a search referred to in section 61(1)(a) of the Act— | ||
(a) the amount of €2 is prescribed as the fee for a search if the period of time within the search dates specified for the search is 5 years or less, and | ||
(b) the amount of €20 is prescribed as the fee for a search if the period of time within the search dates specified for the search is greater than 5 years and the time taken to conduct that search does not exceed 7 consecutive hours. | ||
5. The amount of €2 is prescribed as the fee for a search under section 61(2)(a) of the Act. | ||
6. The amount of €150 is prescribed as the fee for the purposes of section 46(3) of the Act. | ||
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, | ||
2 November 2007 | ||
MARY HARNEY. | ||
Minister for Health and Children. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) | ||
The effect of this Order is to allow certain increases in the fees payable to (a) Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora (b) Superintendent Registrars and (c) Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages for searches, certificates and other registration services in the matter of the civil registration of marriages. |
