The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 3250 (L.23)

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 1994

Made

15th December 1994

Coming into force

1st February 1995

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament for forty days and, that period having expired, neither House has resolved that the Order be not made:

Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 137(4) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st February 1995.

2.  Part I of Schedule 6 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(3) shall be varied by the insertion of “section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990(4),” after “Parts I or II of the Children Act 1989,” under the heading “FAMILY PROCEEDINGS”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 15th December 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order introduces a fee of £30 in respect of applications in the magistrates' courts under section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Section 30 confers power upon the court to make a parental order in respect of a child in favour of a married couple, at least one of whom is the genetic parent and where the child has been born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement satisfying certain conditions. The section came into force on 1st November 1994.

(1)

1980 c. 43.

(2)

S.I. 1992/709.

(3)

Part I of Schedule 6 was substituted by S.I. 1993/1889.

(4)

1990 c. 37.