{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-trustee-fees-order-1999/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-trustee-fees-order-1999/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/855",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Trustee (Fees) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-trustee-fees-order-1999",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Power to remit fees and settle disputes",
  "text": "(1) The Public Trustee may remit so much as appears to him equitable of any fee payable in respect of any estate or trust where the whole or any part of the property is in another estate or trust in which he is acting.\n(2) With the approval of the Treasury, the Public Trustee may–\n(a) compromise any dispute about his right to a fee or about the amount due; and\n(b) remit so much as appears to him equitable of any fee payable in respect of any estate or trust where–\n(i) his duties have been or are likely to be exceptionally simple; or\n(ii) the estate or trust is otherwise of an exceptional character.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/690",
      "affecting_title": "Public Trustee (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2232",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Trustee (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/855/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:46.181965+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."
}