The Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made: 29th October 2007

Coming into operation: 26th November 2007

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

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 26th November 2007.

• (2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Family Proceedings Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00002].

Amendments to the principal Order

2

In the Schedule to the principal Order—

• (a) after Fee no.1(b) insert the following fees:–

• (b) after Fee no.4(q) insert the following fee:–

; and

• (c) delete Fees no. 5(b), (e), (g) and (h).

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Hanson — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — Dated 27th October 2007

We concur

Alan Campbell — Claire M. Ward — Two of the Lords Commissioners — of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 29th October 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Schedule to the Family Proceedings Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to—

• (a) insert the fee for filing an answer/reply to a petition/answer and the personal application fee for a matrimonial interview in that part of the Schedule dealing with the commencement of proceedings;

• (b) insert the fee for a C2 application in that part of the Schedule dealing with proceedings under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; and

• (c) delete the above fees where they were previously listed in the Schedule.

This Order does not increase or reduce any fees.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment of the costs and benefits of the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, which originally inserted the above fees, was placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and is available on the Northern Ireland Court Service’s website at www.courtsni.gov.uk

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c.23

[^f00002]: 1996 No. 495 to which the most relevant amendments were effected by S.R. 2007 No. 381