Record of Title Act (Ireland) 1865

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Judges to frame a schedule of fees.

Fees to go to Consolidated Fund.

Charges for works done by surveyors, &c.

68. The judges of the Court shall, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, frame a schedule of fees to be received by the recording officer in respect of the following matters, viz.:

(1.) Transfers, transmissions, and other dealings with recorded estates and charges, having regard to the value of the estates and the amounts of the charges:

(2.) Recording of estates under the fifty-first section of this Act, having regard to the value of such estates:

(3.) Entry and cancellation of official notes or entries; lodgment of caveats, and of deeds and other documents; issue of certificates, and other acts to be done by the recording officer:

The judges may, with the consent of the said Commissioners, from time to time lower or raise such fees, or any of them; all fees shall be paid over so as to form part of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; the recording officer may also charge any sum actually payable, according to a scale to be sanctioned by the judges, to a surveyor, printer, or scrivener, for services or work necessarily done in respect of any map, entry, certificate, or copy under this Act; except as aforesaid, no fees or sums shall be received by any officer or clerk of the Court in respect of proceedings under this Act.