The Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 342

SUPREME COURT

The Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

4th August 2004

Coming into operation

1st September 2004

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, commencement and interpretation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2004.

2.  In this Order –

(a) “the principal Order” means the Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996(2); and

(b) a fee referred to by number means the fee so numbered in Schedule 1 to the principal Order.

Fees to be taken in non-contentious probate matters in the Supreme Court

3.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Order, for the amount of –

(i) £1·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (a), there shall be substituted the new amount of £1·50;

(ii) £2·50, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (b), there shall be substituted the new amount of £3·50;

(iii) £3·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (c), there shall be substituted the new amount of £4·00; and

(iv) £25·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (d), there shall be substituted the new amount of £27·50.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

I concur

L.S.

Christopher Leslie

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 1st August 2004

We concur

John Heppell

Joan Ryan

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 4th August 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to increase a number of fees to be taken in non-contentious probate proceedings.

(1)

1978 c. 23

(2)

S.R. 1996 No. 104 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 176 and S.R. 1998 No. 407