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Marriage Act 1973 - Marriage (Fees) Regulations 1998

COOK ISLANDS


THE MARRIAGE (FEES) REGULATIONS 1998


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A.P. Short


Queen's Representative


ORDER IN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL


At Avarua, Rarotonga, this 21st day of October 1998


Present:


HIS EXCELLENCY THE QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE IN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL


PURSUANT to Section 57 of the Marriage Act 1973, His Excellency the Queen's Representative, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following Regulations:


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ANALYSIS


1. Title and commencement
2. Fees
3. Value Added Tax
4. Revocation Schedule


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REGULATIONS


1. Title and commencement - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Marriage (Fees) Regulations 1998.


(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1999.


2. Fees - There shall be paid to the Registrar-General or, as the case requires, to a Registrar, for each of the matters specified in the Schedule to these regulations, the fees specified for in the Schedule.


3. Value Added Tax - The fees specified in the Schedule to these regulations are inclusive of value added tax under the Value Added Tax Act 1997.


4. Revocation - The Second Schedule to the Marriage Regulations 1975 as amended by the Marriage Amendment Regulations 1990 is hereby consequentially revoked.


These Regulations are administered by the Ministry of Justice


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SCHEDULE


Fees to be paid to the Registrar-General and to Registrars under the Marriage Act 1973 ("the Act")



$
For every notice of a marriage intended to be solemnised by an officiating minister
30
For every notice of a marriage intended to be solemnised by a marriage celebrant
65
For every marriage solemnised by the Registrar-General or a Registrar (including certified copy of the entry in the register book if that certificate is issued at the same time of solemnisation)
65
Additional fee in respect of a marriage solemnised by the Registrar-General or a Registrar whose office is not at the time ordinarily open for the transaction of public business under the Act
45
For every amendment to a marriage licence issued
10
For every caveat entered
50
For every certified copy of an entry in a Registrar's marriage register book (other than for a certificate issued at the time of the solemnisation) and for every certified copy of entry in the records of the office of the Registrar-General (when correct year given)
15
Search or inspection of marriage notice books or Registrar's marriage register book, in respect of each name or entry searched or inspected (when correct year given)
5
Search in any index or marriage records in the office of the Registrar General, in respect of each name or entry searched:- For every year of search requested
2
Verification of items in a marriage entry, per item
3
For every application for change of name in the marriage record book under section 47 of the Act
30
For registration of marriage by the Registrar-General under section 37(2) of the Act
40

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