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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-fees-amendment-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3191",
  "legislation_title": "The Supreme Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-fees-amendment-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order).\n1 This Order amends the Supreme Court Fees Order 1980 (“the 1980 Order”) as follows—\n(a) article 4 amends the provisions relating to the remission of fees, so as to exempt persons on income support from liability to pay prescribed fees;\n(b) article 5 increases the fees payable in respect of—\n(i) commencement and progress of proceedings (Fee Nos.1-11);\n(ii) enforcement of judgments (Fee Nos.12-16);\n(iii) certain miscellaneous proceedings or matters (Fee Nos. 21-22);\n(iv) proceedings in the Admiralty Registrar and Marshal’s Office (Fee No.26);\n(v) appeals to the Court of Appeal (Fee No. 27);\n(vi) insolvency proceedings (Fee No. 30);\n(c) article 6 reduces the fee payable on sealing an originating summons for the appointment of a guardian of a child’s estate; the reduction is from £70 (charged under Fee 1(b)) to £30.The fee is thus similar to those charged on the commencement of various other types of application in respect of children under paragraph 2(1)(a) and (c) of the Schedule to the Family Proceedings Fees Order 1991 (S.I.1991/2114);\n(d) article 7 omits Fee No.5E; this fee was rendered superfluous by paragraphs 2(1)(a), 3(c) and 5 of the Schedule to the Family Proceedings Fees Order 1991;\n(e) article 8 specifies that Fee No.5J shall be payable on allocation of a case to an official referee, rather than on setting down;\n(f) article 9—\n(i) increases the fees payable in respect of a judge sitting as an arbitrator or umpire (Fee No.25); and\n(ii) extends Fee No.25 to cover the appointment of an official referee to be an arbitrator or umpire under section 11 of the Arbitration Act 1950, and to provide fees for the second and subsequent days upon which he hears a reference in that capacity; the provisions of article 5 of the 1980 Order relating to the refund of fees are amended as a consequence;\n(g) article 10 extends Fee No.30 to cover the filing of an appeal in bankruptcy and the filing of a notice of cross-appeal or a respondent’s notice.\n2 The fees payable in respect of a judge or official referee under Fee Nos.25(a) and (b) are increased from £500 to £1700.In all other instances, where a fee has been increased, the extent of the increase can be seen from the Order itself.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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