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APPENDIX X.

LUNACY FEES AND PERCENTAGES.

Rúnaí,

Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí.

The following is a note on the subject of the fees and percentages authorised by law to be taken in the Court Offices in Lunacy matters which, in the course of my examination before the Public Accounts Committee on the 25th October, 1951, I undertook to supply for the Committee’s information.

The fees and percentages taken in Lunacy matters in the Court offices are of two kinds, viz., the percentages authorised to be taken under the provisions of the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871 and the fees prescribed by the Court Fees (Supreme and High Court) Order 1926 in that part of the Order which is entitled Lunacy and Minor Matters.

The authorised percentages are:—

(1) The rate of two pounds ten shillings per centum for each annual income amounting to one hundred pounds and not amounting to five hundred pounds, but so that no larger sum be payable in any such case in any one year than ten pounds:

(2) The rate of three pounds per centum for each annual income amounting to five hundred pounds and not amounting to one thousand pounds, but so that no larger sum be payable in such case in any one year than twenty pounds:

(3) The rate of four pounds per centum for each annual income amounting to one thousand pounds or upwards, but so that no larger sum be payable in such case in any one year than one hundred and fifty pounds.

The prescribed fees are:—

									s.	d.
Upon every originating petition and upon every petition to dismiss a
matter out of lunacy or for a supersedeas					..	..	..	..	15	0
Upon every other petition			..	..	..	..	..	..	10	0
Upon every report		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	10	0
Upon every recognizance or bond				..	..	..	..	..	10	0
Upon every lease and deed			..	..	..	..	..	..	5	0
Upon every affidavit		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	6
Upon taxing a bill of costs and certifying the amount thereof where
the amount allowed does not exceed £20					..	..	..	..	1	6
Upon every summons or notice of motion					..	..	..	..	2	0
For taking and certifying the result of an account where the amount found to have been received without deducting any payment shall
not exceed £200	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	0
Where such amount shall exceed £200; for every £100, or fraction of
£100; but not to exceed £10			..	..	..	..	..	..	2	0
Upon every certificate not the result of taking an account							..	..	5	0
Upon drawing up and entering any Order of the President of the High Court or the Judge having for the time being jurisdiction in
Lunacy matters		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	0
Upon every ruling of the Registrar of Wards of Court
(a) where the number of folios shall not exceed 3						..	..	..	1	0
(b) for every additional folio				..	..	..	..	..	0	6

The foregoing fees and percentages are what the Exchequer receives (and all it receives) to meet the expenses incident to the administration of the estates of lunatics. The actual receipts amount in the aggregate at the present time to some £750 a year in the case of the fees and to some £2,500 a year in the case of the percentages.

3ú Nollaig, 1951.	(Signed) THOMAS J. COYNE,
	Rúnaí,
	Roinn Dlí agus Cirt.