{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-passport-fees-regulations-2022/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-passport-fees-regulations-2022/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348234572",
  "legislation_title": "The Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-passport-fees-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a fee is to be charged in respect of—\n(a) the administration by the Secretary of State of applications for passports specified in Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule; and\n(b) the exercise of the functions of the Secretary of State specified in Part 4 of the Schedule.\n(2) The fee specified in Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule in relation to the priority services includes a fee of £30 for arranging the appointment (“the booking fee”).\n(3) No fee is to be charged for administering a standard passport application where it is made by post or online (other than an application made under the priority services) if the prospective passport holder was born on or before 2nd September 1929.\n(4) The fee payable by a prospective passport holder for an application is to be found in a table in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule that specifies fees for the type of application made and, within that table, is the amount specified in the entry in the final column that corresponds with the category of prospective passport holder (specified in the first column) into which the prospective passport holder falls and, where specified in the table, the place where they live, the method of application and the type of priority service under which the application is to be administered.\n(5) The fee payable by a prospective passport holder in respect of a function specified in the table in Part 4 of the Schedule is the amount specified in the entry in the final column that corresponds with the function specified in the first column of that table.\n(6) A prospective passport holder who is 15 years of age may, within 3 weeks before their 16th birthday, pay the fee payable by or in respect of a prospective passport holder of 16 years of age or over (but not a fee falling within paragraph (3)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348234572/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:41.947871+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."
}