The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 10th January 2006.

Amendments to the Family Proceedings Fees Order 2004

2.  The Family Proceedings Fees Order 2004(1) is amended in accordance with the following articles.

3.  In article 3(2)(b)(i), for “married couple or an unmarried couple (as defined respectively in section 3(5) and (6) of the Tax Credits Act 2002)” substitute “couple (as defined in section 3(5A) of the Tax Credits Act 2002(2))”.

4.  For Schedule 1 substitute the Schedule in the Schedule to this Order.

Transitional Provisions

5.  The Family Proceedings Fees Order 2004 is to continue to have effect as if the amendments in this Order had not been made for the purposes of an application under the following sections of the Adoption Act 1976(3)—

(a) section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);

(b) section 21 (variation of a section 18 order so as to substitute one adoption agency for another);

(c) section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18); and

(d) section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27).

Falconer of Thoroton, C

Date 16th December 2005

We consent,

Vernon Coaker

David Watts

Two of the Lords Commissioner’s of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Date 20th December 2005