{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2013/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2013/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/986",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Office Fees Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-fees-order-2013",
  "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 2008 (S.I. 2008/1977). 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 £1,675 to £1,764;\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for the grant of title of Lord Mayor, from £1,675 to £1,764;\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for a Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter (England and Wales), from £560 to £594;\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for the appointment of Heralds, from £215 to £249;\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal promulgating amendments to Canon law (inclusive of one printed sheet of vellum), from £770 to £799;\nLetters Patent under the Great Seal for appointment as Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales), from £215 to £264;\nIssue of certificate confirming appointment as Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales), from £30 to £44; and\nDetermination of an abeyance of a Barony, from £175 to £209.\nThe fee taken for each additional printed sheet of vellum needed to produce Letters Patent under the Great Seal promulgating amendments to Canon law remains the same (£100).\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/986/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:34.109784+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."
}