{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-amendment-rules-2004/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-amendment-rules-2004/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1291",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-amendment-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Court of Protection Rules 2001",
  "text": "After rule 80, insert—\n“Fees where officer of the court appointed receiver\n80A. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), an appointment fee shall be payable, as set out in paragraph 4A of the Appendix, on the appointment of an officer of the court as receiver for a patient.\n(2) Where proceedings are terminated within 4 weeks after the appointment, the fee referred to in paragraph (1) shall cease to be payable and any fee paid in accordance with that paragraph shall be refunded.\n(3) Where an officer of the court has been appointed receiver for a patient—\n(a) a fee shall be payable, as set out in paragraph 4B of the Appendix, in respect of completing an Inland Revenue tax return on behalf of the patient;\n(b) a receivership administration fee shall be payable, as set out in paragraph 4C of the Appendix—\n(i) on the first and every subsequent anniversary of the date of the officer’s appointment as receiver until the termination of the proceedings; and\n(ii) at such other times either during the proceedings or at their termination as the court may direct, and\nwhere the period for which the receivership administration fee is payable is for less than one year, the fee payable shall be the proportion of the full fee as such period bears to one year; and\n(c) the court shall annually, or at such other intervals as it may direct, issue a certificate in respect of each patient stating—\n(i) the amount of the receivership administration fee payable in respect of the patient at the date of the certificate;\n(ii) the period in respect of which that fee in payable; and\n(iii) the name of the person who must make the payment.\n(4) Upon the issue of a certificate under paragraph (3)(c) the amount of the fee shall be charged upon the patient’s estate, and the payment shall be made within such time (not exceeding one month from the date of the certificate) as the court may allow.\n(5) In any case in which it appears to the court that the amount of the fee certified under paragraph (3)(c) has been wrongly assessed, the court may direct that the fee is to be adjusted as it appears to it to be convenient.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1291/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:25:51.914702+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."
}