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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (CONSULAR SERVICES) (FEES)
RULES |
| | S.I. 9/1969
S.I. 64/1989
S.I. 73/1989 |
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| [Commencement 1st
February, 1979] |
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1. These
Rules may be cited as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Consular Services)
(Fees) Rules. | Citation. |
2. In these
Rules, "Children's Passport", "Frequent Traveller's
Passport" and "Regular Passport", respectively have the same
meanings as in the Passport Rules. | Interpretation. |
3. The fees
to be charged for the consular services rendered by the Ministry shall be those
specified in the Schedule. | Fees for consular services rendered by Ministry. |
SCHEDULE (Paragraph 3) |
FEES FOR CONSULAR
SERVICES RENDERED BY MINISTRY |
PART I
Notarial and Kindred Matters |
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Consular Service
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Fee
$
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1.
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Administering an oath or receiving a declaration, affirmation
or attestation
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20.00
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2.
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Authenticating
or legalising a signature or seal:
First signature/seal
For each additional signature/seal
except where this service is included under another fee
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20.00
20.00
10.00
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3.
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Supplying
witnesses - for each witness or attestation
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10.00
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4.
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Initialling
alterations in any document not prepared by the Consular Officer (other than
the striking out of any inapplicable words in a form) or marking exhibits,
for each initial or marking
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2.00
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5.
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Making
or verifying (including certifying where necessary) a copy of a document:
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(a) in
typescript or made by photographic or photostatic process outside the
consular premises, for over 100 words
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20.00
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(b) made
by photographic or photostatic process, if the copy is made in the consular
premises, for each page (with a minimum charge of $5.00)
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2.00
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(c) made
by photographic or photostatic process, copies of treaty texts, for each page
(with a minimum charge of $2.50).
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1.00
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6.
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Uniting
documents and sealing the fastening.
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10.00
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7.
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Obtaining
a legalisation or other certification from another authority upon any
document in addition to costs, if any
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10.00
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8.
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Supplying
certified copies of documents forming part of the records of the courts of
The Bahamas, for every page with a minimum charge of $5.00.
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6.00
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9.
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Preparing
any certificate, declaration or document not otherwise provided for:
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(a) in standard form, per copy
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16.00
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(b) not in standard form, per 100 words or less-
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(i) in
English
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16.00
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(ii) in
any other language plus cost if any
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30.00
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10.
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Preparing
or signing, or both, a declaration of existence except in connection with pay
or pensions payable by a department of the Government of The Bahamas
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20.00
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PART II
Passports, Visas, and Kindred Matters |
11.
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(a) Issuing a Children's Passport
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15.00
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(b) Issuing a Regular Passport
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30.00
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(c) Issuing a
Frequent Traveller's Passport
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60.00
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12.
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(a) Issuing an
additional Children's Passport of restricted validity
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15.00
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(b) Issuing
an additional Regular Passport of restricted validity
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30.00
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(c) Issuing an additional Frequent Traveller's Passport of restricted validity
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60.00
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13.
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Issuing a Bahamian Visa
Card for visiting The Bahamas
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20.00
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14.
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Renewing
a Children's Passport for a further single period of five years
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15.00
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15.
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Renewing
a Children's Passport for a period less than five years, for each year or
part thereof
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3.00
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16.
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Extending
for the first time the validity of an additional passport
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15.00
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17.
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Extending
for the first time the validity of an additional passport for a period less
than five years, for each year or part thereof
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3.00
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18.
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Amending
an existing passport by amending the holder's description except where the
holder is under 16 years
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10.00
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19.
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Issuing
and, where required, preparing an Emergency Passport or other document not
otherwise provided for in lieu of a passport, or accepting a Declaration of
Identity on which a visa is to be granted and issuing a certificate on such
declaration describing the applicant
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15.00
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20.
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Granting
a Visa:
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(a) For
a multiple entry visa
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30.00
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(b) For
a single entry visa
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20.00
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(c) For a
transit visa
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20.00
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(d) For
a Diplomatic Visa
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NIL
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or for
any visa such sum, being the equivalent of fees charged by the authority of
any State for granting a visa to a citizen of The Bahamas as the appropriate
agency directs to be taken for grant of a visa.
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21.
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Issuing
a travel document of any kind for the time being suppliable according to law,
where neither provision in this Schedule for, nor exception therein from, any
other charge is applicable to so doing
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20.00
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22.
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Making
or forwarding or both, a request or communication to any authority of a
foreign state or Commonwealth country, Commonwealth Colony Protectorate,
Protected State or Trust Territory for the issue or renewal of a passport or
other travel document or document of identity or for the grant of a visa or
entry permit in addition to costs, if any
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10.00
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PART III
Searches |
23.
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Having a search made for, or obtaining copies of, or both,
entries in the local registers of records not kept by a Consular Officer-
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(a) for an entry in a local register of births, deaths, or marriages
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20.00
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(b) for any other documents in addition to costs exceeding $1.00
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20.00
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24.
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Making a search in-
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(a) the consular registers (if kept) of births, deaths or marriages
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6.00
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(b) any other records or archives of The Bahamas Government in addition to any other fee applicable
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16.00
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PART IV
Estates |
25.
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Administering in full or in part, safeguarding or arranging the
transmission of all or part of the personal effects and other estate of a
deceased person or proceeds thereof, other than the wages and personal
effects of seamen, in addition to costs
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250.00
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26.
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Intervening
to protect interests claimed by absent citizens of the Commonwealth of The
Bahamas in an estate being administered or probated by a local executor or
administrator, in addition to costs
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250.00
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PART V
Attendances |
27.
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Attending (except in connection with commercial enquiries) for
each hour or lesser period, including the time taken in proceeding from a
reasonable point of departure and in returning to a reasonable point-
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(a)
during customary business hours but elsewhere than at the consular premises
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20.00
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(b) outside customary business hours at the consular premises
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25.00
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(c) elsewhere with-
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40.00
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(a) a maximum in any period of 24 hours
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150.00
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(b) an increase of one-half where the Consular Officer is accompanied away from the consular premises or residence by another Consular Officer or a consular employee with a maximum in this event of
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250.00
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PART VI
Matters relating to Legal Proceedings |
28.
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Presiding at the taking of evidence under a commission or order
from a court, including any matter or thing done by the Consular Officer as
examiner-
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(a) for the
first two hours or less on the first day
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100.00
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(b) for
the first two hours or less on each subsequent day
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50.00
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(c) for
each additional hour in excess of two on any day
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20.00
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29.
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Causing
or endeavouring to cause a document to be served and issuing a certificate or
affidavit of service or attempted service of the document-
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(a) in case of such service being effected or attempted upon a first or single visit or other occasion
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20.00
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(b) with an additional charge for each subsequent visit or other occasion, if any, upon which such service (having been previously attempted) if effected or attempted, of
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10.00
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30.
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Providing
the services of a Consular Officer or consular employee to assist the
Consular Officer in the taking of evidence under a commission or order from a
court, for each such person-
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(a) for each sitting of two hours or less
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20.00
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(b) for each additional hour at each sitting
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10.00
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31.
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Forwarding
a request to a local authority for the taking of evidence or the service of a
document
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20.00
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PART VII
Repatriation and Financial Assistance |
32.
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Arranging the repatriation of a person or a group of persons of
the same family and travelling together
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25.00
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33.
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Advancing
currency to a traveller on payment of a Bahamian Dollar cheque in addition to
costs, if any, and in addition to fee 27 where applicable
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5.00
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PART VIII
Shipping, Seamen and Kindred Matters |
34.
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Receiving or recording a declaration under Part II of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1976, with a view to the registry, transfer and
transmission of ships, interests in ships, or mortgages of ships
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40.00
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35.
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Endorsing
a memorandum of change of master upon the certificate of registry and
initialling, where required, the new master's signature on the agreement with
the crew
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20.00
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36.
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Granting
a provisional certificate of registry in addition to fee 34 where applicable
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200.00
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37.
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Recording
a mortgage of a ship or of shares in a ship
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100.00
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38.
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Recording
the transfer of a mortgage of a ship or of shares in a ship
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100.00
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39.
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Recording
the discharge of a mortgage of a ship or of shares in a ship
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100.00
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40.
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Making
an interposition in the sale of a ship or of shares in a ship
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100.00
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41.
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Receiving
a return of the birth or death of any person on board a ship and endorsing
the agreement with the crew accordingly
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10.00
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42.
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Certifying
a form of claim for wages and other matters, if any, of a deceased seaman or
apprentice
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20.00
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43.
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Examining
or arranging for the examination of provisions or water, payable by the party
who proves to be in default
in addition to the cost, if any, of survey
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50.00
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44.
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Noting
a marine protest and furnishing one certified copy if required
for every further copy
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40.00
20.00
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45.
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Extending
a marine protest, filing the original and furnishing one certified copy if
required-
for any number of words up to 200, excluding the declaratory clause
for every subsequent 100 words or less
in addition to fees 1 and 9 where applicable
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100.00
20.00
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46.
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Filing
a request for survey and issuing an order of survey
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50.00
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47.
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Receiving
a report of a survey, filing the original, and furnishing one certified copy,
if required, of the request, order and report of survey-
for any number of words up to 200, excluding the words in the consular
certificate
for every subsequent 100 words or less
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100.00
20.00
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48.
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Issuing
a bill of health
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40.00
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49.
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Addressing
at the request of the master an application to local authorities for the
arrest, imprisonment or release of seamen or apprentices-
for each seaman or apprentice
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20.00
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50.
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Granting
such certificates as to the number of the crew and other matters as may be
required by local authorities for the clearance inwards and outwards of a
ship-
in addition to fee 54 or 61 where applicable
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30.00
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51.
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Drawing
up, in the form and language required by local authorities, a muster-roll or
detailed list giving names and other details of each member of the crew
in addition to fee 50 unless a certificate in the form of a muster-roll or
list is required for the clearance of the vessel
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20.00
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52.
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Signing
and, if required, sealing the original of a ship's manifest and signing any
copies on the same occasion
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20.00
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53.
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Signing
and, if required, sealing any entry in the official logbook of a ship where
such entry is not required under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1976
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20.00
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54.
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Inspecting
a ship's papers when required to enable a Consular Officer to do any matter
or thing in respect of a ship
except where-
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(a) the papers are already in the custody of the Consular Officer and fee 61 has been taken; or
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(b) the master opens a new agreement at the consular premises
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20.00
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55.
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Inspecting
the marking of a ship, irrespective of the number of visits-
in addition to fee 27
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20.00
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56.
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Making
a request for survey and arranging for the issue of a certificate in
accordance with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea,
1960
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20.00
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57.
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Sanctioning
the engagement of seamen-
on request for each seaman
with-
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6.00
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(a) a maximum where a crew or part of a crew transfer from one Bahamian ship to another; or
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(b) a maximum in respect of each ship where crews or parts of crews transfer between Bahamian ships of
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200.00
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in
addition to fee 54 or 62 where applicable
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58.
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Attesting
alterations in the agreement with the crew-
on request
for each alteration in respect of each seaman concerned
with a maximum on each separate occasion of
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6.00
200.00
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59.
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Sanctioning
the discharge of seamen or leaving behind of seamen and apprentices-
For each seaman or apprentice
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6.00
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(a) a maximum where a crew or part of a crew transfer from one Bahamian ship to another; or
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(b) a maximum in respect of each ship where crews or parts of crews transfer between Bahamian ships of
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200.00
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except
where an apprentice-
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(a) is transferred whilst overseas from one ship to another, or
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(b) having come to the end of his indentures, signs on as a seaman
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in
addition to fee 54 where applicable
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60.
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Certifying desertions of seamen and apprentices-
for each seaman or apprentice
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6.00
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61.
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Taking custody of a ship's papers, making any necessary endorsements thereon, and giving the certificate required by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1976
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20.00
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62.
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Preparing
a fresh agreement with the crew on request when a new agreement is opened at
a foreign port and furnishing the copy which must be made accessible to the
crew for each seaman
with a minimum of
and a maximum of
in addition to fee 57.
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6.00
100.00
200.00
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