Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Family Proceedings Fees Order 2004 and shall come into force on 4th January 2005.

(2)

In this Order—

(a)

a fee referred to by number means the fee so numbered in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b)

a rule referred to by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991^f1;

(c)

expressions also used in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 have the same meaning as in those Rules;

(d)

“LSC” means the Legal Services Commission established under section 1 of the Access to Justice Act 1999^f2;

(e)

“Funding Code” means the code approved under section 9 of the Access to Justice Act 1999.

Annotations

f1: S.I. 1991/1247.
f2: 1999 c. 22. Sections 1 and 9 were amended by article 9 of, and paragraph 11(1)(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887).