The County Court Fees (Amendment) Order 1996
This Order amends the County Court Fees Order 1982 so as—to provide that exemption and remission from payment of court fees are only available for small claims proceedings, and that they have the effect of reducing the fee in question to £10 (article 3);to provide an advance fee for the lodging of a bill for taxation, equal to half of the estimated final taxation fee as calculated on the assumption that the bill is upheld in full, and to set the final fee at £7.50 per £100 of the bill as taxed (article 9);where the bill is lodged by the party who would have to pay the amount of the taxed bill, to limit the amount of the advance fee to £50 unless the district judge orders otherwise (article 5);to reduce the fee for copies of documents to 25p per page after the first five pages of each document (article 11);to increase the following fees as indicated (articles 6 and 7):—to make the fee on a counterclaim the same as that on an independent claim (article 7);to introduce the following new fees (articles 4, 7, 8 and 10):—