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The Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000

S.I. 2000/1544 · Made 8 June 2000

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SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 8th June 2000

Laid before Parliament 9th June 2000

Coming into force 3rd July 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 130 of the Supreme Court Act 1981f1, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Family Division, the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasury under section 130(2) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 54.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order
  4. 4Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

2Interpretation

In this Order—

(a)

“the 1999 Fees Order” means the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999f1;

(b)

a fee or column referred to by number means the fee or column so numbered in Schedule 1 to the 1999 Fees Order.

3Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order

In column 1 in fee 1.5(b) after the word “client” there shall be added the words “; or on the commencement of costs-only proceedings”.

4Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order

In column 1 in fee 2.6, after the word “oath” there shall be added the words “or an order for evidence to be taken by deposition”.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

25th May 2000

We concur,

Harry Woolf, C.J.

Nicholas Phillips, M.R.

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, P.

Richard Scott, V.-C.

6th June 2000

We concur,

Greg Pope

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissionersof Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th June 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999 by specifying a fee for commencement of costs-only proceedings. Costs-only proceedings are permitted by rule 44.12A of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 which is inserted into the Civil Procedure Rules by the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2000.

In addition fee 2.6 (witness summons) is extended to cover applications for deposition orders.