The Family Proceedings 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 Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2004.

Fees to be taken in family proceedings

2

For the Schedule to the Family Proceedings Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00002] there shall be substituted the new Schedule 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 Family Proceedings Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to increase a number of the fees to be taken in family proceedings, in the High Court and county courts.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 23

[^f00002]: S.R. 1996 No. 495 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 177, S.R. 1998 No. 408 and S.R. 2002 No. 344