The Court Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 720 (L. 15)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales

County Court, England And Wales

Family Proceedings, England And Wales

Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales

The Court Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2020

Made

8th July 2020

Laid before Parliament

13th July 2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Lord Chancellor, with the consent and sanction of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 92(1) and (2) of the Courts Act 2003(1) and section 414 of the Insolvency Act 1986(2).

The Lord Chancellor has consulted the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Queen’s Bench Division, the President of the Family Division, the Chancellor of the High Court, the Head of Civil Justice, and the Deputy Head of Civil Justice as required by section 92(5) of the Courts Act 2003, and the Civil Justice Council as required by section 92(6) of the Courts Act 2003.

(1)

2003 c. 39. Section 92 was amended by paragraph 345 of Schedule 4 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and by paragraph 40(a) of Schedule 9 and paragraph 95 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22).

(2)

1986 c. 45. Section 414 was amended by sections 126 and 161 of the Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), S.I. 2007/2194, 2009/805, and by S.S.I. 2015/150.