{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-tribunal-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2026/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-tribunal-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2026/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/642",
  "legislation_title": "The Court and Tribunal Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-and-tribunal-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2026",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004",
  "text": "(1) The Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In the table in Schedule 1 (fees to be taken)—\n(a) in entry 1 (on an application for a grant (or for resealing a grant) other than on an application to which fee 3 applies, where the assessed value of the estate exceeds £5,000), in column 2 (amount of fee), for “£300” substitute “£526”;\n(b) in entry 3.1 (for a duplicate or second or subsequent grant (including one following a revoked grant) in respect of the same deceased person, other than a grant preceded only by a grant limited to settled land, to trust property, or to part of the estate), in column 2, for “£21” substitute “£22”;\n(c) in entry 4 (for the entry or the extension of a caveat), for “£3” substitute “£4”;\n(d) in entry 5 (on an application for a standing search to be carried out in an estate, for each period of six months including the issue of a copy grant and will, if any (irrespective of the number of pages)), for “£3” substitute “£4”;\n(e) in entry 6 (on depositing a will for safe custody in the principal registry or a district registry), in column 2, for “£23” substitute “£24”;\n(f) in entry 7 (on inspection of any will or other document retained by the registry (in the presence of an officer of the registry)), in column 2, for “£23” substitute “£24”;\n(g) in entry 8 (copy documents), for columns 1 and 2 of entry (a) substitute—\n“\n(a) a copy of a document of a specific individual named in the request—\n(i) where the request accompanies an application to which fee 1 or 3.1 applies;\n£2 (for each copy provided, whether or not as a sealed or certified copy)\n(ii) in any other case;\n£16 (for each copy provided, whether or not as a sealed or certified copy)\n”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 13.7.2026, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3120 (L. 22), amended by S.I. 2011/588, 2020/720, 2021/1451, 2024/476, 2025/351 and 2025/1126; there are other amendments not relevant to this instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/642/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:52.913246+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."
}