{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-public-guardian-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-public-guardian-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1126",
  "legislation_title": "The Court and Public Guardian Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-public-guardian-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fees payable in relation to non-contentious probate",
  "text": "(1) The Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) Before article 8 insert—\n“Special exemption – emergency service personnel and armed forces\n7A No fee is payable on an application for a grant relating to an estate where reliefs apply under one of the following sections of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984—\n(a) section 153A (death of emergency service personnel etc.);\n(b) section 154 (death on active service, etc.);\n(c) section 155A (death of constables and service personnel targeted because of their status).”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 for the entries relating to fee 8 (copy documents) substitute—\n“\n8 Copy documents\nOn a request for—\n(a) a copy of a document of a specific individual named in the request;\n£16 (for each copy provided, whether or not as a certified copy)\n(b) copies of documents of individuals not named in the request, where the copies are made available in electronic form.\n£1.50 (for each copy made available, whether or not as a certified copy)\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3120, amended by S.I. 2019/1063, 2020/720, 2024/476, 2025/351. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 51, amended by the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) and the Finance Act 2015 (c. 11). There are other amendments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1126/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:24.937252+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."
}