Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 3250 (L.23)

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 1994

Made

15th December 1994

Coming into force

1st February 1995

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament for forty days and, that period having expired, neither House has resolved that the Order be not made:

Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 137(4) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st February 1995.

2. Part I of Schedule 6 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(3) shall be varied by the insertion of “section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990(4),” after “Parts I or II of the Children Act 1989,” under the heading “FAMILY PROCEEDINGS”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 15th December 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order introduces a fee of £30 in respect of applications in the magistrates' courts under section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Section 30 confers power upon the court to make a parental order in respect of a child in favour of a married couple, at least one of whom is the genetic parent and where the child has been born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement satisfying certain conditions. The section came into force on 1st November 1994.

(1)

1980 c. 43.

(2)

S.I. 1992/709.

(3)

Part I of Schedule 6 was substituted by S.I. 1993/1889.

(4)

1990 c. 37.