{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-fees-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-fees-order-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/688",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate Fees Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-contentious-probate-fees-order-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exemptions, reductions and remissions",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Lord Chancellor that the payment of any fee prescribed by this Order would, owing to the exceptional circumstances of the particular case, involve undue hardship, he may reduce or remit the fee in that case.\n(2) Where by any convention entered into by Her Majesty with any foreign power it is provided that no fee shall be required to be paid in respect of any proceedings, the fees specified in this Order shall not be taken in respect of those proceedings.\n(3) Where any application for a grant is withdrawn before the issue of a grant, a registrar may reduce or remit a fee.\n(4) Fee 7 shall not be taken where a search is made for research or similar purposes by permission of the President of the Family Division for a document over 100 years old filed in the principal registry or a district registry or another authorised place of deposit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/642",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Contentious Probate Fees (Amendment) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/688/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:17.448617+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."
}