National Debt Act, 1870

No fee for paying dividends, &c.; penalty.

70. No fee, reward, or gratuity shall be demanded or taken for paying any dividend or for any transfer of stock or for receiving any certificate or duplicate certificate under Part VI. of this Act, on pain that any person offending by demanding or taking any such fee, reward, or gratuity shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds to the party aggrieved, with full costs of suit, to be recovered in any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Law in England or Ireland.