{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-2012/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-2012/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Consular Fees Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-fees-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“consular officer” means any person authorised by the Secretary of State to exercise consular functions, or functions in the United Kingdom which correspond with consular functions (including persons who are not, as well as persons who are, consular officers);\n“consular employee” means any person in the administrative or technical service of the consular post or diplomatic mission;\n“consular premises” means the building or parts of buildings used for the purposes of the consular post or diplomatic mission;\n“direct costs” means expenses that are incidental to the performance of a service, such as the cost of posting documents to a customer’s home address or travel costs;\n...\n...\n“overseas service” in relation to legalisation means the service for the processing by consular officers at consular posts of applications made in person;\n“premium service” in relation to legalisation means the same day service for the processing by a London legalisation office dedicated for companies, solicitors and notaries of applications made in person;\n...\n“standard service” in relation to legalisation means the twenty-four hours service for the processing by the main legalisation office at Milton Keynes, of applications made in person at that office and the processing by that office of postal applications within a reasonable time period.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (27.3.2018) by virtue of The Passport (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/414), regs. 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/373), arts. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 6.4.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/798/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:37:02.511019+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."
}