                            FEES    g CAP. 35.  1
CHAPTER 35 
FEES ORDINANCE
To provide for the levying of fees for licenses, permits and other acts or
services in government offices or departments.
(26th June, 1905) *
Enacted by ORDINANCE X of 1905 as amended by Ordinances: II of
1906 and XXVIII of 1939; Emergency Ordinance XV of I958; Ordinance
XXV of 1962; Act XI of 1963; Legal Notice 46 of 1965; and Acts: XVII of
1967 and VI of 1986.
Short title.
Power of Minister 
to fix fees. 
Amended by: 
XV. l958.3; 
XXV. 1962.3;
XI. 1963.2;
L.N. 46 of 1965; 
XVII. 1967.2.
2. (1) A Minister charged with responsibility for any
government department or office may make regulations prescribing
the fees to be charged in such department or office or on behalf
thereof in respect of licences, permits or any other act or service
whatsoever, and may from time to time vary or amend such
regulations.
(2) Any such regulation, unless otherwise provided, shall have
effect from the date of its publication, and shall, as soon as may be,
be laid on the table of the House of Representatives.
(3) The power conferred by subsection (1) of this section and
any other power conferred by any other law to fix such fees as
aforesaid shall be exercisable with the concurrence of the Minister
responsible for finance.
Officer may 
decline to do act or 
service required 
until fee is paid.
3. The officer in charge of any public office or department,
required to do any act or service for which a fee is chargeable under
this Ordinance, may decline to do such act or service until the fee is
paid.
Proceedings for 
recovery of fees. 
Cap. 12.
4. The fees prescribed by any such regulation shall, unless
otherwise provided, be recoverable in the manner laid down in the
Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, for the recovery of sums
due to a government department, on the demand or on behalf of the
officer to whom the fee is payable.
Payment of fees by 
means of stamps. 
Amended by:
II. l906.l; 
XV. 1958.3; 
XXV. 1962.3; 
XI. 1963.3; 
VI. 1986.2.
5. The competent Minister with the concurrence of the
Minister responsible for finance may by regulations direct that the
payment of all or any of the fees referred to in section 2, or of any
of the fees leviable under any other law in force, shall be denoted
by means of postage stamps in such manner as may be provided in
such regulations.
* See  Proclamation No. X of 1905.
  2        CAP. 35. h                 FEES
Power of Minister 
to reduce or remit 
fees in certain 
cases. 
Added by:
XXVIII. 1939.2. 
Amended by: 
XV. 1958.3;
XXV. 1962.3; 
XI.1963.5.
6. It shall be lawful for the competent Minister with the
concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance to reduce or
remit any fee to which this Ordinance refers when he is satisfied
that the payment of such fee would cause hardship to the person by
whom the fee is payable.
