Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 717 (L. 17)
SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES
The Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003
Made
12th March 2003
Laid before Parliament
14th March 2003
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 130 of the Supreme Court Act 1981( 1 ) and sections 414 and 415 of the Insolvency Act 1986( 2 ), with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Family Division, the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasury under section 130(2) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, and with the sanction of the Treasury under sections 414(1) and 415(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986, makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Supreme Court Fees (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003 and shall come into force—
(a) for the purposes of article 2(c) and (d) on the same day as section 1 of the State Pensions Credit Act 2002( 3 ) comes into force for all purposes; and
(b) for all other purposes on 6th April 2003.
Amendments to the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999
2. In article 5(2) of the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999( 4 )—
(a) for paragraph (b) substitute—
“ (b) working tax credit, provided that—
(i) the party is also in receipt of child tax credit; or
(ii) there is a disability element or severe disability element (or both) to the tax credit received by the party;
and that the gross annual income taken into account for the calculation of the working tax credit is £14,213 or less; ” ;
(b) omit paragraph (bb);
(c) in paragraph (c) for “1995” substitute “1995; and”; and
(d) after paragraph (c) insert—
“ (d) guarantee credit under the State Pensions Credit Act 2002. ” .
Transitional provision
3. —(1) A person who at any time on or after 6th April 2003 receives working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit shall be entitled to exemption from court fees payable on or after 6th April 2003 to the same extent as if this Order had not come into force.
(2) This Order has effect only in relation to fees payable on or after 6th April 2003, and in relation to fees payable before that date the Supreme Court Fees Order 1999 shall have effect as if this Order had not been made.
Irvine of Lairg, C
Dated 10th March 2003
We concur
Woolf C. J.
N. Phillips
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Andrew Morritt
Dated 10th March 2003
We concur
Jim Fitzpatrick
John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 12th March 2003
S.I. 1999/687 , relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/2569 and S.I. 2000/641 .