The Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 4) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2382 (L. 22 )

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

The Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 4) Order 2000

Made

4th September 2000

Laid before Parliament

5th September 2000

Coming into force

2nd October 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:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 4) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.

Interpretation

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.

Amendments to the 1999 Fees Order

3.  In column 1 in fee 1, in the notes under the heading “Fees 1.1 and 1.2 Generally”, for the note “Fees 1.1 and 1.2 shall not be payable where fee 1.5(b), fee 4.1 or fee 6 apply,” there shall be substituted the following note—

“Fees 1.1 and 1.2 shall not be payable where fee 1.5(b), fee 1.6(a), fee 4.1 or fee 6 apply.”

4.  In columns 1 and 2, after fee 1.5(b) there shall be added the following new fees—

Column 1	Column 2
Number and description of fee	Amount of fee
1.6—(a) On the commencement of the judicial review procedure Where the court has made an order giving permission to proceed with a claim for judicial review, there shall be payable by the claimant within 7 days of service on the claimant of that order:	£30
1.6—(b) if the judicial review procedure has been commenced	£120
1.6—(c) if the claim for judicial review was commenced otherwise than by using the judicial review procedure	£30

Transitional provisions

5.  In relation to applications for judicial review to which rule 30 of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2000(3) applies (transitional provisions)—

(a) articles 3 and 4 of this Order shall have no effect; and

(b) the fees payable shall be those that applied immediately before 2nd October 2000.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 2nd August 2000

We concur,

Harry Woolf, C.J.,

Nicholas Phillips, M.R.,

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, P.,

Andrew Morritt, V-C.

Dated 4th September 2000

We concur,

Jim Dowd

Greg Pope

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 24th August 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999 by restructuring the fees payable in relation to claims for judicial review to take account of the new rules on judicial review contained in the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2000.

(1)

1981 c. 54.

(2)

S.I. 1999/687; amended by S.I. 1999/2569; S.I. 2000/641; 937 and 1544.

(3)

S.I. 2000/2092.