MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, when declarations are made by conscientious objectors under The Vaccination Act, 1907, before a justice of the peace without going to petty sessions, a fee of 1s. has to be paid by the person making the declaration; and whether the justice of the peace before whom the declaration is made is obliged to demand the payment of the fee and pay it over to the county fund as a clerk's fee.
§ MR. GLADSTONEA fee authorised by a Table of Justices' Clerks' Fees can be demanded only when a clerk has rendered the service in respect of which the fee is authorised. I am advised that when a declaration is made before a justice in the absence of the clerk, no fee should be demanded.