The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 4th August 2004

Coming into operation: 1st September 2004

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 116(1) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978[^f00001], after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2004.

Magistrates' Courts Fees

2

For Schedules 1 and 2 to the Magistrates' Courts Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00002] there shall be substituted the new Schedules 1 and 2 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

I concur

Christopher Leslie — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department for Constitutional Affairs — Dated 1st August 2004

We concur

John Heppell — Joan Ryan — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 4th August 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Magistrates' Courts Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to increase a number of the fees payable in respect of proceedings in Magistrates' Courts and increase fees payable for service of a summons or process.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 23

[^f00002]: S.R. 1996 No. 102 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 494, S.R. 1997 No. 179, S.R. 1998 No. 410 and S.R. 2002 No. 343