{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-fees-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-fees-order-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/689",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court Fees Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-fees-order-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exemptions, reductions and remissions",
  "text": "(1) No fee shall be payable under this Order by a party who, at the time when a fee would otherwise become payable–\n(a) is in receipt of any qualifying benefit, and\n(b) is not in receipt of representation under Part IV of the Legal Aid Act 1988 for the purposes of the proceedings.\n(2) The following are qualifying benefits for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) above–\n(a) income support;\n(b) family credit and disability working allowance under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; and\n(c) income-based jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to fee 4.8 (fee payable on a consolidated attachment of earnings order or an administration order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/639",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2098",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2548",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/718",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/718",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (6.10.2003)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/718",
      "affecting_title": "The County Court Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/689/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:16.104476+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}