ORDINANCE No. 17 of 1870.
Crown Fees.
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Crown Fees Ordinance, Short Title. 1870."
Governor in Council to reduce, vary and remit fees. payable to the use of the Government.
2. Wherever under or by virtue of any Ordinance of the Legislature Power to of Hongkong, any fees are or shall be made payable to a public officer for the use of the Government of the Colony, and no power is or shall be given by such Ordinance to the Governor in Council, from time to time, to reduce or vary the amount of such fees, such power shall be deemed to be vested in the Governor in Council by virtue of this Ordinance: Pro- vided always that the provisions of this section shall not extend to fees. the amount of which a Judge has power to regulate by any rule or order of his Court.
3. No fees shall be varied under this Ordinance so as to exceed the original amount thereof.
4. Every reduction or variation under this Ordinance in the amount of any fees, shall be made by an order of the Governor in Council to be published in the Gazette, and shall not take effect until the date of the publication thereof as aforesaid.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if he shall in his discretion think fit, in any particular case and on any special ground, to remit the payment of any such fees as aforesaid, or to order the amount thereof, if paid, to be refunded.
NOTE.-For order made by the Governor in Council, the 9th April, 1873, under section 4 of "The Crown Fees Ordinance, 1870," as to fees in schedule B of The Chinese Passengers Ordinance, 1871," see Gazette 12th April, 1873.
Order by the Governor in Council, under section 2 of Ordinance No. 17 of 1870, the 12th of February, 1874. [Gazette 14th February, 1874.]
The fee of one dollar payable to the officiating minister for a certificate of baptism under section 9 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1872 for registering births and deaths in Hong-kong; and the like fee of one dollar payable under the same section to the Registrar General or Registrar for registering the particulars of such baptism and recording the same upon the certificate, is hereby reduced to ten cents in each case.
Order by the Administrator in Council, the 8th of July, 1875, under the provisions of section 2 of Ordinance No. 17 of 1870. [Gazette 10th July, 1875.]
The fee to be paid into the Colonial Treasury for a licence to keep a billiard table or bowling alley, shall hereafter be fifty dollars.
Amount of fees originally fixed not to be exceeded.
Power to be exercised by order in Council to be published in the Gazette.
Power to remit or refund fees in special cases.