{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-contentious-probate-fees-order-2018/article-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111174319",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate (Fees) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-contentious-probate-fees-order-2018",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Remissions and refunds: Indian Ocean Tsunami and London Terrorist Bombings",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor must remit in full any fee prescribed in this Order where it appears to the Lord Chancellor that an application for a grant or resealing of a grant is in respect of—\n(a) a death occurring as a result of the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26th December 2004;\n(b) a death occurring as a result of another person’s detonation of a bomb in London on 7th July 2005, or\n(c) a death occurring as a result of action taken in a police operation following another person’s attempted detonation of a bomb in London on 21st July 2005.\n(2) Where a fee has been taken under the Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 2004-\n(a) after 26th December 2004 but before 4th March 2005, in respect of a death occurring in the circumstance described in paragraph (1)(a), or\n(b) after 7th July 2005 but before 29th December 2005, in respect of a death occurring in the circumstances described in paragraph (1)(b) or (c),\nthe Lord Chancellor must, on receipt of a written application from the person who paid the fee, refund the fee to that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3120. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2007/2174, 2011/588, 2013/2302, 2014/513, 590 and 876 and 2017/422."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111174319/article/8",
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  },
  "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."
}