Public Counter – Same day service

Public Counter – Same day service THE FEE FOR LEGALISATION IS £27 PER DOCUMENT. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LEGALISATION OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED FROM 11.30 FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2007. Our public counter is normally open 9.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday. No appointment is necessary. The fee for legalisation of each document is £27 payable in cash or by credit/debit card. You do not need to bring ID and anyone can present the documents on your behalf. During busy periods you may have a total waiting time of up to 2 hours. The Legalisation Office is not a suitable environment for babies or young children. Please try to avoid bringing babies or young children to the Legalisation Office. If you bring batches of 10 or more documents we may agree a time for you to collect them. This may be the following day. Please also note that customers with batches of 20 or more documents can avoid queuing by dropping of and collecting batches according to the following arrangements: 20 – 100 DOCUMENTS Batches deposited at Counter 1 before 10am will be available for collection from 3pm the same day. Batches dropped off at Counter 1 before 3pm will be available for collection from 10am the next working day. OVER 100 DOCUMENTS We shall try our best to ensure that batches deposited at Counter 1 before 10am or 3pm will be available at the same time the next working day, but this may not always be possible depending on the size of the batch and our other commitments. Customers depositing and collecting documents according to the above arrangements will NOT be required to queue. Batches may still be deposited and collected at other times in the usual way ie. by queuing to deposit them and waiting to collect them after they have been legalised.