Statutory Instruments
SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES
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 130 of the Supreme Court Act 1981(1), with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Family Division, the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasury under section 130(2) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 3) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.
2. In this Order—
(a)“the 1999 Fees Order” means the Supreme 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.
3. In column 1 in fee 1.5(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.
25th May 2000
We concur,
Harry Woolf, C.J.
Nicholas Phillips, M.R.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, P.
Richard Scott, V.-C.
6th June 2000
We concur,
Greg Pope
Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Lords Commissionersof Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th June 2000
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Supreme 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.