The Judgment Enforcement Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 411

JUDGMENTS (ENFORCEMENT)

The Judgment Enforcement Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

18th November 1998

Coming into operation

1st December 1998

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 116(1) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978(1), after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:–

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Judgment Enforcement Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1998.

Fees to be taken in the Enforcement of Judgments Office

2.  In Part I of the Schedule to the Judgment Enforcement Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996(2) for the amount of–

(i) £15.00, payable in respect of Fee No. 1, there shall be substituted the amount of £20.00;

(ii) £120.00, payable in respect of Fee No. 3, there shall be substituted the amount of £125.00;

(iii) £500.00, payable in respect of Fee No. 4, there shall be substituted the amount of £515.00; and

(iv) £5.00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9, there shall be substituted the amount of £6.00.

Irvine of Lairg, C

Dated 12th November 1998

We concur,

Jim Dowd

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 18th November 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends Part I of the Schedule to the Judgment Enforcement Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to increase a number of the fees to be taken in respect of the enforcement of judgments under the Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

(1)

1978 c. 23

(2)

S.R. 1996 No. 101