1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Records Office (Fees) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 14th April 2003.
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the fees to be charged for the authentication of copies of, or extracts from, records under the charge of the Keeper of Public Records, and for other services afforded by officers of the Public Record Office, shall be those set in column A of the Schedule, in place of those set out in column B of the Schedule.
(2) In the Schedule, where a charge is made by reference to a period of time, the full charge shall be payable in respect of part of that period.
(3) The Keeper of Public Records may remit a fee where the service performed or to be performed by him has been, or is likely to be, exceptionally simple.
3. The Public Record Office (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2001(1) are revoked.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Rosie Winterton
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 14th March 2003
We consent
Nick Ainger
Jim Fitzpatrick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 17th March 2003