AI-assisted research summary: These regulations let the Minister for Finance control how public-office fees are taken, paid, and accounted for.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1934. No. 361. WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that the Minister for Finance may from time to time make regulations for certain purposes respecting fees in any public office, and amongst others for the purpose of regulating the manner in which such fees, taken in money, are to be taken, accounted for, and paid over: AND WHEREAS the office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce is a public office within the meaning of the said Act: NOW, therefore, the Minister for Finance in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of any and every other power him in this behalf enabling hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:— 2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924. ) if the amount of the fee does not exceed five shillings, by cash, cheque or postal order; ) if the amount of the fee exceeds five shillings— (i) by post office money order payable to the Paymaster-General at the General Post Office, Dublin, and crossed "/& Co./" or (ii) by banker's draft, or by cheque guaranteed by the bank on which it is drawn, payable to the credit of the Account of the Paymaster-General. 4. The said fees shall be accounted for, paid into, or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance may direct. GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 15th day of November, 1934. (Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT.