S.I. No. 619/1935 - Railway Tribunal (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1935.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1935. No. 619.

RAILWAY TRIBUNAL (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that the Minister for Finance may from time to time make regulations for certain purposes respecting fees in any public office, and amongst others for the purpose of determining the use of impressed or adhesive stamps, and regulating the use of stamps and prescribing the application thereof to documents from time to time in use and requiring documents to be used for the purpose of such stamps and that any such regulation so far as it relates to the office of any court of law shall be made with the consent of the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State:

AND WHEREAS the office of the Railway Tribunal is a public office and an office of a court of law within the meaning of the said Act:

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Railway Tribunal (Collection of Fees) Order, 1935, fees payable in the office of the Railway Tribunal under sub-section (2) of section 47 of the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933), are to be collected by means of stamps:

NOW, the Minister for Finance, with the consent of the Chief Justice of the Irish Free State testified by his signature affixed to these regulations, and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling does hereby make the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Railway Tribunal (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. The stamps to be used in the office of the Railway Tribunal for the collection of the fees payable to the Railway Tribunal under sub-section (2) of section 47 of the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933), shall be impressed stamps denoted by the general duty dies in the possession of the Revenue Commissioners, and such stamps shall, in the case of fees payable on the receiving, filing or issuing of a document in or from the said office be impressed on such document and shall in every other case be impressed on the docket required by these Regulations to be lodged in the said office on the occasion on which such fee is payable.

4. Whenever a fee (other than a fee payable on the receiving filing, or issuing of a document in respect of proceedings before the Railway Tribunal) under sub-section (2) of section 47 of the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933), is payable, there shall be lodged in the office of the Railway Tribunal on the occasion on which such fee is payable by the person by whom such fee is payable a docket in the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE.

ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1933 .

COURT OF THE RAILWAY TRIBUNAL.

FEE DOCKET.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 16th day of September, 1935.

(Sgd.) ARTHUR D. CODLING,

An Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance.

I consent to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

AODH UA CINNÉIDIGH,

Chief Justice.