Magistrates Court (Civil) (Amendment) Rules, 2024 (No. 6)
Three magistrates court civil fees fall away — registration of estates, consent of transfer and consent of sale are deleted from the court's fee table, so those items are no longer charged under the Civil Rules.
This short amendment removes three items from the fee table used by the magistrates courts in civil matters.
Table C in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Magistrates Court (Civil) Rules, 1980 (S.I. 290 of 1980) is amended by deleting item 20 ("Registration of estates"), item 24 ("Consent of transfer") and item 25 ("Consent of sale").
Those three heads of charge therefore disappear from the magistrates court civil fee schedule. The instrument does not say what replaces them or where those functions now sit, so anyone who previously paid a magistrates court fee for registering an estate or obtaining a consent to transfer or sale should check with the clerk of court which office now handles the matter.
The instrument gives no separate commencement date beyond gazetting on 28 June 2024, and it does not reproduce the fee amounts it is deleting.
What changed
- Item 20 "Registration of estates" deleted from Table C, Part II of the Second Schedule
- Item 24 "Consent of transfer" deleted
- Item 25 "Consent of sale" deleted
Who this affects
- litigants and executors dealing with estates in the magistrates courts
- legal practitioners filing civil matters in the magistrates courts
- clerks of court collecting civil fees
- conveyancers seeking consents to transfer or sale
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.