The Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) 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, commencement and interpretation

1

This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2004.

2

In this Order –

• (a) “the principal Order” means the Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00002]; and

• (b) a fee referred to by number means the fee so numbered in Schedule 1 to the principal Order.

Fees to be taken in non-contentious probate matters in the Supreme Court

3

In Schedule 1 to the principal Order, for the amount of –

• (i) £1·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (a), there shall be substituted the new amount of £1·50;

• (ii) £2·50, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (b), there shall be substituted the new amount of £3·50;

• (iii) £3·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (c), there shall be substituted the new amount of £4·00; and

• (iv) £25·00, payable in respect of Fee No. 9 (d), there shall be substituted the new amount of £27·50.

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 Supreme Court (Non-Contentious Probate) Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to increase a number of fees to be taken in non-contentious probate proceedings.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 23

[^f00002]: S.R. 1996 No. 104 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 176 and S.R. 1998 No. 407