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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2001/article-78",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/824",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/78",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Administration fee",
  "text": "(1) An administration fee shall be payable—\n(a) on the first and every subsequent anniversary of the date of the appointment of a receiver, until the termination of the proceedings, and at such other times either during the proceedings or at their termination as the Court may direct;\n(b) where the period for which the 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.\n(2) The court shall annually, or at such other intervals as may be convenient, issue a certificate in respect of each patient stating—\n(a) the amount of the administration fee payable in respect of the patient at the date of the certificate;\n(b) the period in respect of which the administration fee is payable; and\n(c) the name of the person by whom the payment is made.\n(3) Upon the issue of a certificate under this rule 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(4) In any case in which it appears to the court that amount of the fee certified under this rule has been wrongly assessed, the court may direct that the fee is to be adjusted as it appears to it to be convenient.\n(5) No administration fee shall be taken where the proceedings are terminated less than four weeks from the date of issue of the first application for the appointment of a receiver.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/653",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2051",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Guardian (Fees, etc) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1291",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1291",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/667",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/833",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/824/article/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:57:57.222085+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."
}