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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-fees-order-northern-ireland-1996/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/102",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-fees-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Fees Payable for Service of a Summons or Process",
  "text": "Fee\n1 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph 3, for the service of a summons or process or document\n£7·00\n(2) Where service of a summons or process is required to be personal\n£10·00\n2 For the service of a summons or process where there are two or more defendants or witnesses in the same proceedings there shall be a separate fee for each defendant or witness.\n3 Where a document relating to a summons is served together with the summons, for each document served\n£3·00",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 in operation at 1.4.1996, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/379",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2023/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2026/37",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 2",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/339",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/179",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/102/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:37:06.738762+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."
}