Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1995 No. 313

COMPANIES
Companies (Inspectors' Reports and Records Inspection) (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

Made
4th August 1995

Coming into operation
2nd October 1995

The Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 430(3), 657(1) and (4) and 681(l) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1), Article 21(4) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Inspectors' Reports and Records Inspection) (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 and shall come into operation on 2nd October 1995.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations any reference to a numbered Article is to an Article of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.

Fees

3.—(1) The prescribed fee for furnishing a copy of a report under Article 430(3), or for furnishing a copy of a report or part of a report under that Article as it applies for the purposes of Article 436, shall be 10 pence for each page copied.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) a fee of £2 shall be payable to the registrar in respect of each inspection of records under Article 658(3) relating to one company.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply in relation to an inspection of the index kept by the registrar under Article 663(4).

Revocation

4.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), the Companies (Consolidation of Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(5) (“the 1987 Regulations”) are hereby revoked.

(2) The fees specified in entries 1 and 3 to 7 of the Schedule to the 1987 Regulations shall continue to apply to any registration or re-registration in respect of which any document necessary for the registrar to effect such an act is delivered to the registrar before 2nd October 1995.

(3) The fees specified in entries 10 and 11 of the Schedule to the 1987 Regulations shall continue to apply in respect of any copy of a document or part of a document the request for certification of which was made before 2nd October 1995.

(4) The fees specified in entries 12 and 13 of the Schedule to the 1987 Regulations in so far as they relate to a certified extract of any document shall continue to apply where the request for such an extract was made before 2nd October 1995.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on 4th August 1995.

L.S.
A. L. Brown
Assistant Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations replace in part the Companies (Consolidation of Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (S.R. 1987 No. 258) which are revoked with savings. The savings take account of regulation 4 of the Companies (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 312).
The fee of 10 pence per page copied for furnishing a copy of a report under Article 430(3) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (“the Order”) or under that Article as it applies for the purposes of Article 436 of the Order remains unchanged (regulation 3).
The fee in respect of each inspection of records under Article 658 of the Order is increased from £1 to £2 and will be payable for each inspection relating to one company. The fee is not payable in respect of an inspection of the index kept under Article 663 of the Order (regulation 3).
Fees in respect of certain functions of the registrar of companies under the Order are set out in the Companies (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.


(1)
S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6); Article 657(1) was amended by Articles 61(2) and 113 of and Schedule 6 to the Companies (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990, S.I. 1990/1504 (N.I. 10)

(2)
S.I. 1989/2404 (N.I. 18)

(3)
Article 658 was substituted by Article 60(2) of the Companies (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990

(4)
Article 663 was amended by regulation 4 of and paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Part XXIII Companies and Credit and Financial Institutions (Branch Disclosure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993, S.R. 1993 No. 198

(5)
S.R. 1987 No. 258