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This Order amends the Magistrates’ Courts Fees Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1052) as follows.

Paragraph 3(1)(a) is amended to clarify that, in civil or family proceedings, a fee may be charged to access documents that were used in, or result from, criminal proceedings.

In Schedule 1, fees 4 and 17 are amended so to include fees for obtaining a liability order or warrant for commitment in respect of non domestic rates under the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Fee 9 is amended to replace the reference to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.