Statutory Instruments
2025 No. 436
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
The Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2025
Made
2nd April 2025
Coming into force
9th April 2025
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2nd day of April 2025
Present,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
His Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Him by section 1(1), (4A) and (4B) of the Consular Fees Act 1980(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order as follows:
Citation, commencement and extent
article 1 1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Consular Fees (Amendment) Order 2025 and comes into force on 9th April 2025.
(2) This Order extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Amendment of the Consular Fees Order 2012
article 2 2.—(1) The table in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Consular Fees Order 2012(2) (Table of general consular fees) is amended as follows.
(2) In row 19, column 3, for “100.00” substitute “125.00”.
(3) In row 20, column 3, for “75.00” substitute “125.00”.
Richard Tilbrook
Clerk of the Privy Council
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order in Council)
This Order amends the Table of General Consular Fees in the Consular Fees Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/798 as amended).
Paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 2 of this Order amend the fees relating to Emergency Travel Documents from £100 to £125 and relating to Emergency Passports from £75 to £125.
An Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this Order as no, or no significant, impact is foreseen on the private, voluntary or public sectors in the United Kingdom.
1980 c. 23. Subsections (4A) and (4B) were inserted by section 36 of the Identity Cards Act 2006 (c. 15) and continue to have effect by virtue of section 1(3) of the Identity Documents Act 2010 (c. 40) subject to the consequential amendment made by paragraph 2 of the Schedule to that Act.
S.I. 2012/798. The Table of General Consular Fees was substituted by S.I. 2016/373 and most recently amended by S.I. 2023/1388.