{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-record-office-fees-regulations-2025/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-record-office-fees-regulations-2025/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1243",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-record-office-fees-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the fees to be charged for authenticated copies or extracts from records under the charge of the Keeper of Public Records and for other services afforded by officers of the Public Record Office, which exercises its functions as part of The National Archives. The fees prescribed in the Schedule to the Regulations are exclusive of value added tax.\nThese Regulations revoke and replace the Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1420, “the 2018 Regulations”). Some fees payable under the 2018 Regulations are no longer charged, including fees relating to loans (preparation of records for external exhibitions).\nWhere a fee prescribed in the Schedule was also prescribed by the 2018 Regulations, the rate for each such fee has been increased, as follows—\nThe fee for a search (paragraph 2) is increased from £24.35 to £38.95;\nThe fee for copying and authenticating a naturalisation certificate (paragraph 3) is increased from £27.15 to £68.84;\nThe fee for a page check (per record) (paragraph 4) is increased from £8.40 to £9.92;\nThe fee for a colour digital copy of a page of a record (other than a military service personnel record) up to and including size A3 (paragraph 5(b)(i)) is increased from £1.20 to £1.52;\nThe fee for a colour digital copy of a page of a record (other than a military service personnel record) larger than size A3 (paragraph 5(b)(ii)) is increased from £8.45 to £11.95;\nThe fee for a colour paper copy of a page of a record (other than a military service personnel record) up to and including size A3 (paragraph 5(c)(i)) is increased from £4.95 to £7.40;\nThe fee for a colour paper copy of a page of a record (other than a military service personnel record) larger than size A3 (paragraph 5(c)(ii)) is increased from £9.60 to £17.71;\nThe fee for authenticating a copy of, or part of, a record (other than a naturalisation certificate) (paragraph 6) is increased from £19.80 to £23.25.\nThe new fees introduced for services provided in respect of certain military service personnel records for the Royal Air Force, and for members of the regular and reserve army of or below the rank of warrant officer, relate to an ongoing project which started in 2021 to transfer around 10 million records from the Ministry of Defence to The National Archives in line with the Public Records Act 1958. These services are designed to satisfy the significant and challenging level of demand for access to such records more quickly. The National Archives provides support to requestors at all stages to determine whether their search falls within the scope of these services.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1243/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:07.732945+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."
}