County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877

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Fixing and collection of fees and stamp duties.

83. The Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the chairmen, or any five of them, to be selected or nominated as herein-before provided, or the major part of such five, and with the consent of the Treasury, may, by order, fix the fees to be taken in the Civil Bill Courts in respect of any business under this and any other Acts in force for the time being in such courts, and may, with the like concurrence and consent, alter reduce or increase the same from time to time; he may also, with the like concurrence and consent, alter the fees and stamp duties at present taken in those Courts, and substitute other fees for the same, and where no fees or stamp duties are at present imposed, he may, with the like concurrence and consent, declare and fix whether any and what fees shall be taken, and may from time to time alter, reduce or increase any fees so fixed or substituted: Provided always, that, in fixing and substituting fees as aforesaid regard shall be had, where practicable, to the ad valorem principle.

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(3.) The Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, may from time to time make such rules as may seem fit for publishing the amount of the fees

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(7.) The Treasury shall keep such separate accounts of all moneys (including moneys received from or for stamps) annually received from fees and duties under this and any other Acts in force for the time being in the Civil Bill Courts, and of all other moneys by this Act made payable into or receivable by Her Majesty's Exchequer, as shall be necessary to ascertain the total amount so received in each year, and all the moneys received as aforesaid shall, after deducting any expenses incurred by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in the execution of this Act, be carried to and form part of the Consolidated Fund:

(8.) The Treasury shall keep such separate accounts of all moneys annually payable under the twenty-fifth section of this Act as shall be necessary to ascertain the total amount so paid in each year:

(9.) The several accounts herein-before directed to be kept for each year shall be presented to Parliament within the year next following.

Subject to the provisions of any order to be made as herein before provided, the existing fees and stamp duties shall, save so far as is by this Act otherwise expressly provided, continue to be taken . . . as if this Act had not been passed.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 57.

When and so soon as the said fees shall have been fixed as herein-before provided, all the provisions contained in the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851, and the Acts altering, amending, or affecting the same, in reference to the stamps and fees thereby imposed and authorised to be taken, shall, so far as the same may be applicable, extend, and be applied to the fees and stamp duties fixed as herein-before provided.