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<\/a>CHAPTER 354
FOREIGN SERVICE FEES AND CHARGES ACT<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]\n<\/p>\n

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS\n<\/p>\n

    Section<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Title\n<\/p>\n

    1.<\/a>    Short title.\n<\/p>\n

    2.<\/a>    Power to fix fees and charges.\n<\/p>\n

    3.<\/a>    Fees or charges prescribed under other laws.\n<\/p>\n

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CHAPTER 354
FOREIGN SERVICE FEES AND CHARGES ACT\n<\/p>\n

An Act to make provision for the fees and charges of foreign service officers.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

[9th December, 1961]
[s. 1]\n<\/p>\n

Ord. No. 45 of 1961
[R.L. Cap. 447]\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>1.    Short title\n<\/p>\n

    This Act may be cited as the Foreign Service Fees and Charges Act.\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>2.    Power to fix fees and charges\n<\/p>\n

    (1) The Minister responsible for foreign affairs (hereinafter referred to as the Minister) may, by order published in the Gazette<\/i>, prescribe the fees and charges which may be taken or imposed for any matter or thing done by a foreign service officer in the discharge of the duties or functions of his office or of any other duties or functions which he may be authorised to perform by virtue of his office.\n<\/p>\n

    (2) All such fees and charges shall be levied, accounted for and applied, and may be remitted, in accordance with directions issued by the Minister.\n<\/p>\n

    (3) A notice specifying the fees and charges prescribed by an order made under this Act shall be conspicuously displayed in the office of every mission and in every consular office, and every person interested in the payment of any fee or charge to a foreign service officer may inspect it.\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>3.    Fees or charges prescribed under other laws\n<\/p>\n

    When a fee or charge prescribed by an order under this Act differs from a fee or charge fixed or prescribed for the same matter or thing under any other written law, the fee or charge which may be taken or imposed by a foreign service officer shall be that prescribed under that order.
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