{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2008/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2008/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1977",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Office Fees Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2008",
  "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 2003 (S.I. 2003/92). The following fees taken in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery are increased:\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for the grant of title of City, from £1,435 to £1,675\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for the grant of title of Lord Mayor, from £1,435 to £1,675\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for a Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter (England and Wales), from £410 to £560\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for the appointment of Heralds, from £180 to £215\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for appointment as Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales), from £165 to £215\nDetermination of an abeyance of a Barony, from £130 to £175.\nThis Order also replaces the single fee for Letters Patent under the Great Seal promulgating amendments to Canon law (of £555) with a fee for such Letters Patent inclusive of one printed sheet of vellum (of £770) and a separate fee for each additional printed sheet of vellum needed to produce the Letters Patent (of £100).\nThe fees taken for the issue of certificates confirming appointment as Queen’s Counsel remain the same.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1977/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:26:23.043965+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."
}