{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-court-fees-order-1997/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/687",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheriff Court Fees Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-court-fees-order-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Cases in which an extra fee is payable",
  "text": "(1) When a summary cause is remitted to the ordinary cause roll, the fees specified in paragraphs 6 and 20 of the Table of Fees shall become payable in respect of the cause by the persons who would have been required to pay them if the cause had been from its commencement an ordinary cause, less the amount of any fee previously paid by the person concerned in respect of the cause.\n(2) When any commissary proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings or proceedings under section 4 of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 are opposed, the fees specified in paragraphs 6 and 20 of the Table of Fees shall become payable in respect of the proceedings by the persons who would have been required to pay them if the proceedings had been from their commencement proceedings to which those paragraphs applied, less the amount of any fee previously paid by the person concerned in respect of the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/89",
      "affecting_title": "The Sheriff Court Fees Amendment Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/89",
      "affecting_title": "The Sheriff Court Fees Amendment Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Sheriff Court Fees Amendment Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/687/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:25.032234+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."
}