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133 Enrolment and engrossment of instruments.E+W
(1)The Master of the Rolls may make regulations for authorising and regulating the enrolment or filing of instruments in the [F1Senior Courts], and for prescribing the form in which certificates of enrolment or filing are to be issued.
(2)Regulations under subsection (1) shall not affect the operation of any enactment requiring or authorising the enrolment of any instrument in the [F1Senior Courts] or prescribing the manner in which any instrument is to be enrolled there.
(3)Any instrument which is required or authorised by or under this or any other Act to be enrolled or engrossed in the [F1Senior Courts] shall be deemed to have been duly enrolled or engrossed if it is written on material authorised or required by regulations under subsection (1) and has been filed or otherwise preserved in accordance with regulations under that subsection.
(4)The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls and of the Treasury, make regulations prescribing the fees to be paid on the enrolment or filing of any instrument in the [F1Senior Courts], including any additional fees payable on the enrolment or filing of any instrument out of time.
(5)Any regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be laid before Parliament after being made; and the M1Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to a statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) in like manner as if the regulations had been made by a Minister of the Crown.
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F1Words in s. 133 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 26(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
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