The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 201 (S. 7)

ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ENSIGNS AND FLAGS

The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1994

Made

27th January 1994

Laid before Parliament

10th February 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5 of, as read with paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Acts 1968(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Variation of fees

2.  Schedule B to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1867(2) shall be amended in accordance with article 3 of, and the Schedule to, this Order.

3.  In relation to those matters in Schedule B which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, the fees payable shall be varied by substituting the fees specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order for the fees specified in column 3 of that Schedule (being the fees payable immediately prior to the coming into force of this Order).

4.  The Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1993(3) is hereby revoked.

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th January 1994

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
(Matter to which fee relates)	(Fee payable)	(Fee formerly payable)((4))
	£	£
On every patent of arms with supporters	679.00	651.00
On every patent of arms without supporters	422.00	405.00
On every matriculation of arms with supporters, without a new patent	232.00	222.00
On every matriculation of arms without supporters, without a new patent	177.00	170.00
On every matriculation of arms without a new patent of arms, but with a patent of supporters	488.00	468.00
On every genealogy recorded	143.00	137.00
Additional for each member of the pedigree	6.00	5.50
Certificate regarding change of surname	51.00	49.00
Search in register of arms	6.00	5.50
Search in register of genealogies	6.00	7.00
General search in heraldic MSS	44.00	42.00
General search in genealogical MSS	44.00	42.00
On every extract from a register	12.00	11.00
On entering a caveat	30.00	29.00
On admission of a messenger-at-arms	154.00	148.00
Annual dues of a messenger-at-arms	25.00	24.00
On recording resignation or change of residence of a messenger	6.00	5.50
On search for a messenger’s cautioner	6.00	5.00
On every certified statement of name and designation of such cautioner, and date of bond	9.00	8.00
On extracting each warrant, decree, or precept of suspension— first sheet	12.00	11.00
each subsequent sheet	6.00	5.50
On affixing seal of office to warrant, decree or precept	12.00	11.00
On examining executions of service and intimations of precepts of suspension, marking them on the record and giving out certificates	12.00	11.00
On lending process and taking receipt	6.00	5.50
On return of process and scoring receipt	6.00	5.50
On re-admission of a messenger-at-arms	30.00	29.00
On the appointment of a herald	10.00	10.00
On the appointment of a pursuivant	10.00	10.00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies the fees for certain matters listed in Schedule B to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1867.

The matters concerned are specified in Column 1 of the Schedule to the Order. The fees were last varied in 1993.

The fees contained in Schedule B to the 1867 Act are exclusive of stamp duty when stamp duty is exigible.

(1)

1968 c. 14.

(2)

1867 c. 17; Schedule B was last amended by S.I. 1993/298.

(3)

S.I. 1993/298.

(4)

This column shows the fees which were payable under Schedule B to the Lyon King of Arms Act 1867 c. 17 as amended by S.I. 1993/298 before the coming into force of the Lyon Court and Office Fees (Variation) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/201) on 1st April 1994.