1540
The Harbour Master
$5.00
The Registrar of the Supreme Court
5.00
The Superintendent of Imports and Exports
5.00
The Head of the Sanitary Department...
5.00
The Registrar of Companies
The Official Trustee...
The Official Administrator
The Clerk of Councils
:
5.00
:
5.00
5.00
5.00
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance repeals the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, No. 1 of 1888, and two amending Ordinances, Nos. 22 of 1931 and 24 of 1934, and substitutes new provisions therefor.
2. Section 2 (1) of this Ordinance specifies the cases in which, subject to the provisions of the Crown Fees Ordin- ance, No. 5 of 1870, a fee is to be charged for the official signatures set out in the Schedule, thus giving effect to the present practice of charging a fee under Ordinance No. 1 of 1888, the provisions of which were derived originally from section 11 of Ordinance No. 21 of 1844, a licensing Ordinance, for certain signatures to certificates, licences and similar official permissions for which no other enactment prescribes a fee, and removing doubts arising from the form of Ordinance No. 1 of 1888, which have been expressed as to the scope of that Ordinance.
Section 2 (2) of this Ordinance enables the signature of public officers, under local enactments, to be affixed by an agent to certain documents, which the agent is required to sign.
3. Section 3 of this Ordinance gives the Governor in Council power to amend the Schedule in any manner whatsoever.
4. The Schedule to this Ordinance is derived from section 2 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1888, as amended by Ordinances Nos. 5 of 1928, 18 of 1929, 22 of 1931 and 24 of 1934. The exception to section 2 (1) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1888 is now rendered unnecessary by section 2 of this Ordinance, and has been omitted, and the opportunity has been taken to include in the Schedule the Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Registrar of Companies, the Official Trustee and the Official Administrator, for the signature of each of whom a fee of $5 is to be charged.
June, 1935.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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