The Crown Office Fees Order 2013

Made: 23rd April 2013

Coming into force: 20th May 2013

The Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 9 of the Great Seal (Offices) Act 1874[^f00001]:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Crown Office Fees Order 2013 and comes into force on 20th May 2013.

Fees to be taken in the office of the clerk of the Crown in Chancery

2

The fees set out in column 2 of the table in the Schedule are to be taken in the office of the clerk of the Crown in Chancery in respect of the matters described in column 1.

Revocation

3

The Crown Office Fees Order 2008[^f00002] is revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

C Grayling — Lord Chancellor — 18th April 2013

We concur

Stephen Crabb — Robert Goodwill — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 23rd April 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order revokes and replaces the Crown Office Fees Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1977). The following fees taken in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery are increased:

Letters Patent under the Great Seal for the grant of title of City, from £1,675 to £1,764;

Letters Patent under the Great Seal for the grant of title of Lord Mayor, from £1,675 to £1,764;

Letters Patent under the Great Seal for a Charter of Incorporation or Supplemental Charter (England and Wales), from £560 to £594;

Letters Patent under the Great Seal for the appointment of Heralds, from £215 to £249;

Letters Patent under the Great Seal promulgating amendments to Canon law (inclusive of one printed sheet of vellum), from £770 to £799;

Letters Patent under the Great Seal for appointment as Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales), from £215 to £264;

Issue of certificate confirming appointment as Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales), from £30 to £44; and

Determination of an abeyance of a Barony, from £175 to £209.

The fee taken for each additional printed sheet of vellum needed to produce Letters Patent under the Great Seal promulgating amendments to Canon law remains the same (£100).

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1874 c. 81; section 9 was amended by section 1 of and the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (c. 39) and by section 1(1) of and Part VI of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995 (c. 44).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2008/1977.