1999 No. 188 (S.10)

SHERIFF COURT, SCOTLAND

Act of Sederunt (Fees of Witnesses in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 1999

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Lords of Council and Session, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 40 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907(1 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, do hereby enact and declare:

Citation and commencement1

1

This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Witnesses in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 1999 and shall come into force on 1st March 1999.

2

This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.

Increase in fees2

In the table of fees set out in Schedule 1 to the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Witnesses and Shorthand Writers in the Sheriff Court) 1992(2 in the provisions mentioned in column 1 of the Schedule to this Act of Sederunt, for the amounts respectively specified in column 2, substitute the amounts so specified in column 3.

Saving3

Paragraph 2 does not affect such fees as are incurred before 1st March 1999.

Rodger of EarlsferryLord President I.P.D.Edinburgh,

SCHEDULE

Paragraph 2.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Provision of Schedule 1

Old fee (£)

New fee (£)

Paragraph 1 (managers, executives and officers in HM Forces and merchant shipping)

140.00

160.00

Paragraph 2 (professional persons)

(a)(i)

98.00

108.00

(ii)

56.00

62.00

(iii)

168.00

175.00

(b)(i)

168.00

175.00

Paragraph 3 (other persons)

(a)

52.00

58.00

(b)

29.00

33.00

Paragraph 4 (persons other than those mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 3)

14.00

20.00

Paragraph 6 (subsistence allowance)

(a)

7.00

10.00

(b)

14.00

20.00

(c)

70.00

115.00

(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)

This Act of Sederunt provides for an increase of about 10% in the fees payable to witnesses in civil proceedings in the sheriff court (and an increase of about 65% in the overnight allowance so payable) by amending the table of fees set out in Schedule 1 to the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Witnesses and Shorthand Writers in the Sheriff Court) 1992. The last increase was in the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Witnesses and Shorthand Writers in the Sheriff Court) 1992 (S.I.1992/1878).