Fees payable for searches, certified copies, etc.N.I.
47.—(1) There shall be payable for or in respect of—
(a)examination of a particular entry in a register, and searches in indexes of registers;
(b)certified copies and certificates relating to any entries in registers;
(c)any functions performed by any officer under Article 37;
(d)furnishing information for the purposes of any statutory provision specified in Schedule 1;
fees of such amounts as may be prescribed under this Article.
[F1(2) The Department may by order prescribe the fees payable for the purposes of paragraph (1); but no order shall be made under this paragraph unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Assembly.]
(3) Where any fee is prescribed under this Article, then it shall not be lawful for any person to demand or receive, in respect of any transaction to which that fee relates, any sum in excess of the prescribed fee other than a sum equal to the amount of any expenditure properly incurred in the carrying out of that transaction.
(4) Except as may be prescribed a registrar may refuse to comply with any application made to him under this Order until the prescribed fee is paid to him; and any such fee shall be a debt recoverable summarily by the officer to whom it is payable.
F1SI 1999/663