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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-fees-order-1991/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-fees-order-1991/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2114",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-fees-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "No fee shall be payable under this Order where the person who would otherwise be liable to pay—\n(a) is a legally assisted person within the meaning of section 2(11) of the Legal Aid Act 1988;\n(b) is in receipt of income support or family credit under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986;\n(c) is a person who is not a beneficiary of a trust fund in court of a value of more than £50,000 and who is—\n(i) under the age of eighteen, or\n(ii) a person for whose financial relief an order under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 is in force or is being applied for.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/788",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2628",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3190",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "renumbered (as art.3(1))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2671",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 1997"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 1997"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2671",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (as subst. by S.1.1997/788)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1080",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2114/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:37:46.936708+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."
}