Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 1545 (L. 14)

The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2000 No. 1545 (L. 14)

FAMILY PROCEEDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000

	Made	8th June 2000
	Coming into force	3rd July 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 41 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984[1], with the concurrence of the Treasury under section 41 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.This Order may be cited as the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Interpretation
    2.In this Order - 

(a) "the 1999 Fees Order" means the Family Proceedings Fees Order 1999[2];

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

Amendment to the 1999 Fees Order
    3.In column 1 in fee 1.6, after the word "client" there shall be added the words "; or on the commencement of costs-only proceedings".


Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 25th May 2000



We concur,


Greg Pope

Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Dated 8th June 2000

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Family Proceedings 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 those Rules by the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2000. Rule 44.12A applies to family proceedings by virtue of the Family Proceedings (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1999.

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Notes:

[1] 1984 c. 42.back

[2] S.I. 1999/690; amended by S.I. 1999/2549; S.I. 2000/640 and 938.back

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