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Number 31 of 1939.
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR FEES ACT, 1939.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section | |
Saving for powers under the Commissioners for Oaths (Diplomatic and Consular) Act, 1931. | |
Act Referred to | |
No. 9 of 1931 | |
Number 31 of 1939.
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR FEES ACT, 1939.
“The Minister”.
1.—In this Act the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for External Affairs.
Regulations fixing fees.
2.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations fixing the fees to be charged for such services as are specified in such regulations when rendered by a person to whom this Act applies.
(2) Different regulations may be made under this section in relation to different persons to whom this Act applies and in, relation to different countries and places.
(3) Regulations made under this section may provide for the waiver in specified circumstances of any fee fixed by those regulations or any other regulations made under this section.
(4) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such regulation is laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
Collection, disposal, and recovery of fees.
3.—The following provisions shall have effect in respect of every fee charged under regulations made under this Act, that is to say:—
(a) such fee shall be collected and taken in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall from time to time direct and shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in accordance with the directions of the said Minister,
(b) the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall not apply in respect of such fee, and
(c) such fee shall, in default of payment by the person liable under such regulations for the payment thereof, be recoverable from such person as a simple contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
Persons to whom this Act applies.
4.—This Act applies to the following persons, that is to say:—
(a) an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, a high commissioner, a chargé d'affaires, a counsellor of legation, a first secretary of legation, a second secretary of legation, a first secretary of the office of high commissioner, a second secretary of the office of high commissioner, an attaché, and
(b) a consul-general, a consul, a vice-consul, and
(c) an honorary consul, an honorary vice-consul, and
(d) any officer of the Minister appointed by the Minister to be a person to whom this Act applies.
Saving for powers under the Commissioners for Oaths (Diplomatic and Consular) Act, 1931.
5.—The powers conferred by this Act on the Minister are in addition to and not in substitution for the powers conferred on him by the Commissioners for Oaths (Diplomatic and Consular) Act, 1931 (No. 9 of 1931).
Short title.
6.—This Act may be cited as the Diplomatic and Consular Fees Act, 1939.
Uimhir 31 de 1939.
ACHT UM THÁILLÍ TAIDHLEOIREACHTA AGUS CONSULACHTA, 1939.
“An tAire”.
1.—San Acht so cialluíonn an abairt “an tAire” an tAire Gnóthaí Eachtracha.
Rialacháin ag ceapadh táillí.
2.—(1) Féadfaidh an tAire, le toiliú an Aire Airgeadais, rialacháin do dhéanamh ag ceapadh na dtáillí a héileofar as duine le n-a mbaineann an tAcht so do dhéanamh na seirbhísí luadhfar sna rialacháin sin.
(2) Féadfar rialacháin deifriúla do dhéanamh fén alt so maidir le daoine deifriúla le n-a mbainean an tAcht so agus maidir le tíortha agus áiteanna deifriúla.
(3) Féadfar a shocrú le haon rialacháin a déanfar fén alt so go maithfear i gcásanna áirithe aon táille ceapfar leis na rialacháin sin no le haon rialacháin eile déanfar fén alt so.
(4) Gach rialachán a déanfar fén alt so leagfar é fé bhráid gach Tighe den Oireachtas chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis a dhéanta, agus má dheineann ceachtar Tigh aca, laistigh den lá agus fiche a shuidhfidh an Tigh sin tar éis an rialacháin sin do leagadh fé n-a bhráid, rún do rith ag cur an rialacháin sin ar nea-mbrí beidh an rialachán san curtha ar nea-mbrí dá réir sin, ach beidh san gan dochar de bhailíocht éinní do rinneadh roimhe sin fén rialachán san.
Táillí do bhailiú, do chur chun críche, agus do bhaint amach.
3.—Beidh éifeacht ag na forálacha so leanas maidir le gach táille a héileofar fé rialachán a déanfar fén Acht so, sé sin le rá:—
(a) baileofar agus glacfar an táille sin sa tslí ordóidh an tAire Airgeadais o am go ham agus déanfar í d'íoc isteach sa Stát-Chiste no do chur chun tairbhe don Stát-Chiste do réir orduithe an Aire sin,
(b) ní bhainfidh an Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, leis an táille sin, agus
(c) mara n-íoctar an táille sin ag an duine dhlighfidh fé sna rialacháin sin í íoc féadfar í bhaint den duine sin, mar fhiacha gnáth-chonnartha, in aon Chúirt dlighinse inniúla.
Na daoine le n-a mbaineann an tAcht so.
4.—Baineann an tAcht so leis na daoine seo leanas, sé sin le rá:—
(a) envoyé extraordinaire agus aire lán-chomhachtach, árdchoimisinéir, chargé d'affaires, comhairleoir leagáideachta, príomh-rúnaí leagáideachta, fo-rúnaí leagáideachta, príomh-rúnaí árd-choimisinéireachta, fo-rúnaí árd-choimisinéireachta, attaché, agus
(b) árd-chonsul, consul, leas-chonsul, agus
(c) consul oinigh, leas-chonsul oinigh, agus
(d) aon oifigeach don Aire cheapfaidh an tAire chun bheith ina dhuine le n-a mbaineann an tAcht so.
Cosaint do chomhachta fé Acht na gCoimisinéirí Mionn (Taidhleoireachta agus Consulta), 1931.
5.—Na comhachta do bheirtear don Aire leis an Acht so is comhachta i dteanta agus ní comhachta iad in ionad na gcomhacht do bheirtear dó le hAcht na gCoimisinéirí Mionn (Taidhleoireachta agus Consulta), 1931 (Uimh. 9 de 1931).
Gearr-theideal.
6.—Féadfar an tAcht um Tháillí Taidhleoireachta agus Consulachta, 1939, do ghairm den Acht so.