Chancery and Common Law Offices (Ireland) Act, 1867

Fees on Crown side of Court of Queen's Bench.

48. No officer employed on the Crown side of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland shall be entitled to receive and retain for his own use any fee, emolument, or reward whatsoever; and all and every the fees payable for or by reason of any matter or thing done or to be done by the said clerk of the Crown in his said office, or in anywise appertaining to the business thereof, now received in money, shall no longer be received in money, but by a stamp denoting the amount of the fee which otherwise would be payable; and where any fee shall be payable in respect of any document, such stamp shall, at the expense of the party liable to pay the fee, and in such manner and under such regulations as shall be directed by any general order under this Act, be stamped or affixed on the vellum, parchment, or paper on which the proceeding in respect whereof such fee is payable is written, printed, or engrossed, or which may be otherwise used in reference to such proceedings.