The Crown Office Fees Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 692

CLERK OF THE CROWN IN CHANCERY

The Crown Office Fees Order 1999

Made

8th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

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

1.  This Order may be cited as the Crown Office Fees Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

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	£175
Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales)	£150
Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter (England and Wales)	£315
Grant of Title of City	£1,250
Grant of Title of Lord Mayor	£1,250
(2) Writ of Summons on the Determination of an abeyance of a Barony	£150

3.  The Crown Office Fees Order 1994(2) is hereby revoked.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 5th March 1999

We consent

Clive J. C. Betts

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 8th March 1999.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes and replaces the Crown Office Fees Order 1994. It alters some of the fees to be taken in the Office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, as follows:

(1) For Letters Patent under the Great Seal:

(a) for Heralds, the fee is increased from £120 to £175;

(b) for Queen’s Counsel, there is no change;

(c) for Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charger, the fee is increased from £180 to £315;

(d) for Grant of Title of City, there is no change;

(e) for Grant of Title of Lord Mayor, there is no change;

(2) For Writ of Summons on the Determination of an abeyance of a Barony, the fee is increased from £120 to £150.

(1)

1874 c. 81; section 9 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (c. 39), section 1 and the Schedule to that Act and by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995 (c. 44), section 1(1) and Schedule 1 to that Act.

(2)

S.I. 1994/600.