Part 8: Fees Section 88: Power to charge fees for passport validation services
This section provides a power to charge fees for the provision of passport validation services. These are services in connection with the UK passport validation service, confirming the validity of a UK passport or the accuracy of the information in them.
	Subsection (3) provides a definition of United Kingdom passport.
	Subsection (5) provides that any fee payable may be recovered as a debt due to the Secretary of State and subsection (4) that fees paid under this provision must be paid into the Consolidated Fund unless an alternative is specified in regulations.
	Subsection (6) provides that regulations under subsection (5) can only be made with Treasury consent and subsection (7) provides that this power, like that in Section 87, is without prejudice to existing powers to charge fees.