No. 283/1943:

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR FEES (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1943.

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR FEES (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1943.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Sub-section (1) of Section 2 of the Diplomatic and Consular Fees Act, 1939 (No. 31 of 1939), that the Minister for External Affairs 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 the said Act applies :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by Sub-section (3) of the said Section 2 that regulations made under that Section may provide for the waiver in specified circumstances of any fee fixed by those regulations :

NOW I, ÉAMON DE VALÉRA, Minister for External Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 2 of the Diplomatic and Consular Fees Act, 1939 (No. 31 of 1939), and of every and any other power enabling me in this behalf, with the consent of the Minister for Finance testified by his Official Seal affixed hereto, do hereby make the following regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Diplomatic and Consular Fees (No. 2) Regulations, 1943.

2. In these Regulations—

the expression " the Act " means the Diplomatic and Consular Fees Act, 1939 (No. 31 of 1939) ;

the word " passport " shall be deemed to include any travel document or document of identity (not being a passport) issued, for the purpose of facilitating travel, by or on behalf of the competent authorities of any country ;

the expression " Irish visa " means an endorsement made on a passport other than an Irish passport by any person to whom the Act applies for the purpose of indicating that such passport is good for the entry into the State of the holder thereof ;

the expression " foreign visa " means an endorsement made on an Irish passport by or on behalf of the competent authorities of any other country for the purpose of indicating that such passport is good for the entry into that country of the holder thereof.

3. For the service of granting an Irish visa there shall be charged whichever is the appropriate of the following fees, that is to say :—

4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing Article of these Regulations, whenever the Minister is satisfied that Irish citizens are charged either substantially more or substantially less for a foreign visa of any kind than the fee fixed by the foregoing Article for the service of granting an Irish visa of the same or a similar kind, the Minister shall direct that the fee to be charged for the service of granting such an Irish visa to citizens, subjects or nationals of the particular country concerned shall be

(a) if the fee charged for the foreign visa is fixed in a currency that is current in the country concerned and if the fee for the Irish visa is collected and taken in that country, the amount of the fee charged for the foreign visa, and

(b) in any other case, such sum in Irish currency, subject to a minimum of two shillings, as the Minister may determine to be the equivalent of the amount of the fee charged for the foreign visa.

5. The Minister may waive any fee chargeable under these Regulations in either of the following circumstances, that is to say :—

(a) where the service for which such fee is chargeable is rendered for, and at the request of, any official or public authority, or

(b) where the service for which such fee is chargeable is rendered for a citizen, subject or national of any other country the Government of which waives the fee or does not charge a fee for the same or a similar service when rendered for an Irish citizen.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 2nd day of September, 1943.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Minister for External Affairs.

I consent to the foregoing Regulations.

SEÁN T. Ó CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Finance.