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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-public-guardian-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2025/note",
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  "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",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3120), the Public Guardian (Fees, etc) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2051) and the Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1053).\nArticle 3 exempts fees from being payable under the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004 in relation to emergency service personnel and armed forces personnel where inheritance tax reliefs apply. Article 3 also increases Fee 8 in Schedule 1 to that Order. Fee 8, which relates to requests for copies of documents, including grants or wills, is increased from £1.50 to £16, where the request is for a copy of a document of a specific individual named in the request.\nArticle 4 applies inflation-based increases to fees for applications relating to lasting and enduring powers of attorney in the Public Guardian (Fees, etc) Regulations 2007 from £82 to £92 and the fee to resubmit an application to register a lasting power of attorney from £41 to £46.\nArticle 5 exempts fees from being payable for applications relating to insolvency and persons at risk of violence under the Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008.\nArticle 6 exempts fees from being payable for making referrals to the High Court of decisions to release prisoners on parole under the Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available at https://legislation.gov.uk or by writing to the Ministry of Justice, Fees Policy and Administrative Justice Team, 102 Petty France, Area 5.20, Westminster, London, SW1H 9AJ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1126/note",
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  "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."
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