{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-non-contentious-business-remuneration-order-1994/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-non-contentious-business-remuneration-order-1994/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2616",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors' (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-non-contentious-business-remuneration-order-1994",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Requirement to pay a sum towards the costs",
  "text": "(1) On requiring a solicitor to obtain a remuneration certificate a client must pay to the solicitor the paid disbursements and value added tax comprised in the bill together with 50% of the costs unless:—\n(a) the client has already paid the amount required under this article, by deduction from monies held or otherwise; or\n(b) the solicitor or (if the solicitor refuses) the Council has agreed in writing to waive all or part of this requirement.\n(2) The Council shall be under no obligation to provide a remuneration certificate, and the solicitor may take steps to obtain payment of his bill, if the client, having been informed of his right to seek a waiver of the requirements of paragraph (1), has not:—\n(a) within one month of receipt of the information specified in article 8, either paid in accordance with paragraph (1) or applied to the Council in writing for a waiver of the requirements of paragraph (1); or\n(b) made payment in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (1) within one month of written notification that he has been refused a waiver of those requirements by the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2616/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:24:56.052754+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."
}