The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2669

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 1992

Made

28th October 1992

Coming into force

22nd November 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of October 1992

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the power conferred upon Her by section 1(1) of the Consular Fees Act 1980(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 22nd November 1992.

2.  Part II of the Table of Consular Fees in the Schedule annexed to the Consular Fees Order 1989(2) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in the entry for Fee 12, after the words “32 pages” there shall be added “which includes replacing an expired passport, and issuing a new passport of full validity when an original passport of restricted validity is unavailable”, and for “15.00” there shall be substituted “18.00”;

(b) in the entry for Fee 12A(3), after the words “48 pages” there shall be added “which includes replacing an expired passport, and issuing a new passport of full validity when an original passport of restricted validity is unavailable”, and for “22.50” there shall be substituted “27.00”;

(c) in the entry for Fee 14, for “7.50” there shall be substituted “12.00” and for “11.25” there shall be substituted “18.00”;

(d) in the entry for Fee 15, for “2.00” there shall be substituted “3.00”;

(e) in the entry for Fee 16, for “30.00” there shall be substituted “40.00”;

(f) in the entry for Fee 17, for “4.00” there shall be substituted “5.00”; and

(g) in the entries for Fees 18 and 19, for “3.00”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted “5.00”.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Consular Fees Order 1989 to increase the fees for passports and to clarify the circumstances in which the fees for a 32 page and a 48 page passport are payable. The fee for issuing a 32 page passport is increased from £15 to £18 and that for a 48 page passport from £22.50 to £27. These fees are payable when a new passport is issued, when an expired passport is replaced by the issue of a new passport and when a new passport of full validity is issued to replace a lost, destroyed, stolen or otherwise unavailable passport which was of restricted validity. The fee for issuing a British Visitor’s Passport goes up from £7.50 to £12; where such a passport includes particulars of a spouse the increase is from £11.25 to £18. The fee for issuing an excursion document for travel to France is increased from £2 to £3 and that for a collective passport from £30 to £40. The fee for amending a passport to add particulars of children goes up from £4 to £5; and the fees for amendments involving the holder’s name, photograph or description are increased from £3 to £5.

(1)

1980 c. 23.

(2)

S.I. 1989/152.

(3)

Fee 12A was added by S.I. 1991/2629.