Diplomatic Service Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2016 and comes into force on 6th April 2016. Amendment of the Consular Fees Order 2012 2 1 The Consular Fees Order 2012 is amended as follows. 2 In article 2 omit the definition of “the appropriate Registrar General”. 3 For the Table of General Consular Fees in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Consular Fees Order 2012 substitute— TABLE OF GENERAL CONSULAR FEES Fee £ I. LEGALISATION 1. Legalising a signature or seal— (i) Standard service (in addition to direct costs, if any) 30.00 (ii) Premium service (in addition to direct costs, if any) 75.00 (iii) Overseas service (in addition to direct costs, if any) 30.00 II. NOTARIAL AND RELATED MATTERS 2. Preparing any certificate, declaration or document not listed elsewhere in this table (i) in English 50.00 (ii) in any other language 50.00 3. Signing a declaration of existence (except if required by a department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom) 25.00 4. Administering an oath, declaration or affirmation 50.00 5. Witnessing a signature 25.00 6. Certifying a copy of a document 25.00 7. Uniting documents and Marking of Exhibits 25.00 8. Supplying certified copies of documents which form part of the records of a court which is, or was formerly, established under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts 1890 and 1913 , for each page 50.00 III. NATIONALITY 9. Administering an oath of British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981 100.00 IV. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS AND DEATHS 10. Receiving notice of an intended marriage, civil partnership or overseas relationship 50.00 11. Issuing a certificate that no impediment to an intended marriage or civil partnership has been shown to exist, or issuing any local equivalent document for an intended marriage or overseas relationship in accordance with local law (i) in English 50.00 (ii) in any other language 50.00 12. Solemnising and administering oaths for consular marriage; or registering or converting a civil partnership into marriage 150.00 13. Administering an application for the registration of a birth or a death 150.00 14. Making an addition to or correction in the consular register as necessary 25.00 15. Issuing a certified copy of an entry in the consular register 50.00 16. Making a search in (i) the consular register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships where the number or date of entry is not provided 50.00 (ii) the naturalisation, registration or renunciation records kept by a consular officer 50.00 V. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS 17. Forwarding a request to a local authority for the taking of evidence or the service of a document (including effecting service of a document in relation to proceedings in which state immunity is in issue), and returning any evidence received of service or attempted service of a document (provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in proceedings where state immunity is in issue) 150.00 VI. MARITIME SERVICES 18. Providing or administering a service not otherwise covered in this Schedule in relation to shipping, seamen and related matters, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any 150.00 VII. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE 19. Administering an application for, and, if successful providing, an Emergency Travel Document 100.00 20. Exceptionally, administering an application for, and, if successful, providing an Emergency Passport, on occasions when it is not possible to provide an Emergency Travel Document 75.00 21. Arranging, exceptionally, for currency to be made available against the deposit of funds (i) £0.01-£99.99 10.00 (ii) £100.00-£499.99 25.00 (iii) £500.00or more 50.00 VIII. OTHER SERVICES 22. Providing the services of a consular officer or a consular employee in relation to any other service which the consular post or diplomatic mission has agreed to undertake, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any 150.00 Ceri King Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council