{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/92",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Office Fees Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order revokes and replaces the Crown Office Fees Order 1999. The following fees taken in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery are increased:\nLetters Patent for the grant of title of City or of Lord Mayor, from £1,250 to £1,435\nLetters Patent for a Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter, from £315 to £410\nLetters Patent for the appointment of Heralds, from £175 to £180\nLetters Patent for appointment as Queen’s Counsel, from £150 to £165.\nThe fee for the determination of an abeyance of a Barony, for which a Writ of Summons is no longer required, is decreased from £150 to £130.\nFor the first time, fees are taken for the issue of Letters Patent promulgating amendments to Canon law, and for certificates confirming appointment as Queen’s Counsel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/92/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:33:36.306069+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."
}