The Crown Office Fees Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2319

CLERK OF THE CROWN IN CHANCERY

The Crown Office Fees Order 1990

Made

22nd November 1990

Coming into force

17th December 1990

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 9 of the Great Seal (Offices) Act 1874(1), and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Crown Office Fees Order 1990 and shall come into force on 17th December 1990.

2.  The following fees shall be taken in the Office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery—

(1) Letters Patent under the Great Seal—
Heralds	£60
Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales)	£380
Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter (England and Wales)	£350
Grant of Title of City	£800
Grant of Title of Lord Mayor	£800;
(2) On filing a Memorial for appointment as a Welsh District Notary	£100;
(3) Writ of Summons on the Determination of an abeyance of a Barony	£350.

3.  The Crown Office Fees Order 1987(2) is hereby revoked.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

21st November 1990

We concur

Thomas Sackville

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd November 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order replaces the existing Fees Order with a new Order which increases the fees for Letters Patent under the Great Seal, as follows—

(a) for Heralds, from £50 to £60;

(b) for Queen’s Counsel, from £350 to £380;

(c) for a Grant of Title of City, from £350 to £800;

(d) for a Grant of Title of Lord Mayor, from £350 to £800.

The other fees are unchanged.

(1)

1874 c. 81.

(2)

S.I. 1987/1464.