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make, and when made, revoke, alter, and add to, regulations for . all or any of the following purposes respecting fees in any public office, that is to say,—
(1.) Regulating the manner in which the fees taken in money are to be taken, accounted for, and paid over.
(2.) Determining the use of impressed or adhesive stamps, and the mode of cancellation of adhesive stamps.
(3.) Regulating the use of stamps and prescribing the application thereof to documents from time to time in use, and requiring documents to be used for the purpose of such stamps.
Provided that so far as they relate to the office of any Court of Law, they shall be made with the consent of the Lord Chancellor.
Now we, the undersigned, being two of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, do, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, hereby give notice and order and direct:—
That from and after the 1st day of January 1891, in lieu of any regulations on the subject heretofore in force, the stamps used for denoting the fees and percentages described in the schedule hereto subjoined shall, so far as they are payable in regard to proceedings in the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal, be of the character and be applied and otherwise dealt with as prescribed by such schedule. And we do further enjoin that this Order shall be binding on all Courts, Officers, and persons whom such regulations may in any way affect.
The adhesive stamps herein referred to shall be of the description overprinted with the word "Bankruptcy," except where otherwise provided. They shall be cancelled by the various Court or other officials by perforation or in such manner as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue may from time to time direct. The impressed stamps also shall be of such character as the said Commissioners may adopt for the purpose.
The official forms with impressed or adhesive stamps (as the case may be required in respect of any proceedings herein referred to may be obtained at the Inland Revenue Offices, Royal Courts of Justice. Persons may, however, in addition have their own forms stamped at that office or at the corresponding office at Somerset House.