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Power to Treasury to grant compensation for loss of fees under 44 & 45 Vict. c. 12, ss. 33, 34.
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12. Where it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Treasury that any officer of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court in England or of the Probate and Matrimonial Division of the High Court in Ireland, or any commissary clerk or sheriff clerk in Scotland, has suffered any loss in consequence of the reduction by virtue of section thirty-three or section thirty-four of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1881, of the amount of fees payable to him in the cases mentioned in such sections respectively, it shall be lawful for the Treasury to award to him out of moneys provided by Parliament such compensation whether by way of an annual sum or gratuity, as they may think reasonable.
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