The County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1988

Made: 14th March 1988

Laid before Parliament: 21st March 1988

Coming into force: 12th April 1988

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 128 of the County Courts Act 1984[^f00001], with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order—

1

This Order may be cited as the County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 12th April 1988.

2

In Fee 1(ii) in Schedule 1 to the County Court Fees Order 1982[^f00002], for the words“(other than an order freeing a child for adoption or an adoption order or where Fee 9 applies)” there shall be substituted the words—

(other than— (a) an order freeing a child for adoption, or (b) an adoption order, or (c) the registration of a custody order in another part of the United Kingdom, or (d) where Fee 9 applies)

3

After Fee 1(iii) in the said Schedule there shall be inserted, in column 1, the words“(iv) On an application for the registration of a custody order in another part of the United Kingdom” and, in column 2, the words“£10”.

Signed

Mackay of Clashfern, C. — Dated 10th March 1988

Mark Lennox-Boyd — Michael Neubert — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 14th March 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order introduces a fee on an application to a county court for the registration of a custody order in another part of the United Kingdom under the Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c. 28.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/1706, as amended by S.I. 1983/1681, 1985/574, 1834, 1986/633, 2143.