The County Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1546 (L. 15)

COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The County Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000

Made

8th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

9th June 2000

Coming into force

3rd July 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 128 of the County Courts Act 1984(1), with the concurrence of the Treasury under section 128(1) of the County Courts Act 1984, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the County Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

(a) “the 1999 Fees Order” means the County Court Fees Order 1999(2);

(b) a fee or column referred to by number means the fee or column so numbered in Schedule 1 to the 1999 Fees Order.

Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order

3.  In column 1 in fee 1.6(b), after the word “client” there shall be added the words “; or on the commencement of costs-only proceedings”.

4.  In column 1 in fee 2.6, after the word “oath” there shall be added the words “or an order for evidence to be taken by deposition”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 25th May 2000

We concur,

Greg Pope

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 8th June 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the County Court Fees Order 1999 by specifying a fee for commencement of costs-only proceedings. Costs-only proceedings are permitted by rule 44.12A of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 which is inserted into the Civil Procedure Rules by the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2000.

In addition fee 2.6 (witness summons) is extended to cover applications for deposition orders.

(1)

1984 c. 28.

(2)

S.I. 1999/689; amended by S.I. 1999/2548; S.I. 2000/639 and 939.