{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-1994/schedule/part-IX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-1994/schedule/part-IX.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2793",
  "legislation_title": "The Consular Fees Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule/part/IX",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "SHIPPING, SEAMEN AND KINDRED MATTERS",
  "text": "44 Granting or considering whether to grant a provisional certificate of registry—\n(a) where the owner is a private individual…\n100.00\n(b) where the owner is a body corporate…\n230.00\n45 Receiving a return of the birth or death of any person on board a ship and endorsing the agreement with the crew accordingly…\n25.00\n46 Examining or arranging for the examination of provisions or water, payable by the party who proves to be in default…\n60.00\nin addition to the cost, if any, of survey\n47 Noting a marine protest and furnishing one certified copy if required…\n45.00\nfor every further copy…\n25.00\n48 Extending a marine protest, filing the original and furnishing one certified copy if required—\n(a) for any number of words up to 200, excluding the declaratory clause…\n120.00\n(b) for every subsequent 100 words or less…\n25.00\nin addition to fees 1 and 3 where applicable\n49 Making a request, or issuing or arranging for the issue of a document, in connection with a survey of a ship—\n(a) for the purposes of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 (SOLAS) or of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 as modified by its Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL)…\n30.00\n(b) for any other purpose…\n120.00\nin addition to fee 6 where applicable\n50 Issuing a bill of health\n45.00\n51 Preparing or signing, or both, any document, whether required by the Merchant Shipping Acts or by the local authorities, relating to the master or the members of the crew or a ship, to their numbers, names or other details, or to their engagement, discharge, desertion or death…\n40.00\nexcept where—\n(a) fee 45 is taken in addition to fee 37, or\n(b) a death inquiry is held under section 61 Merchant Shipping Act 1970\n52 Signing and, if required, sealing any document at the request of the master of the ship…\n40.00\nexcept where—\n(a) this is required under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or\n(b) fee 51 is taken\n53 Inspecting—\n(a) a ship’s papers when required to enable a consular officer to do any matter or thing in respect of a ship…\n30.00\nexcept where fee 51 is taken in addition to fee 37\n(b) the marking of a ship, irrespective of the number of visits…\n30.00\nin addition to fee 37.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd. 7874."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cmnd. 5748."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cmnd. 7437."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1970 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2793/schedule/part/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:56.360720+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}