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Practitioners should note that SI no 585/2001 (operative from 1 January 2002) sets out the euro conversion amounts for statutory amounts appearing in the Rules of the Superior Courts and the appendices and forms attached thereto.

The statutory instrument provides, among other things, for the fees payable to commissioners for oaths (or other persons duly authorised to take affidavits), as follows:

For taking an affidavit, affirmation or declaration or on attesting the execution of a bond €4

For marking exhibits - €1.30

It also provides that in any place in the Rules of the Superior Courts or the appendices and forms attached thereto, where an amount stands specified therein in pounds and the amount represents an amount fixed by or contained in legislation, such amount shall be converted to the equivalent euro rate, that is, at the rate of 1 euro equals 0.787564 pounds. Any reference to any statutory sum or statutory limit hereafter shall be taken to refer to the equivalent euro amount or such euro amount as shall, for the time being, stand specified by law.

In relation to any figure or amount not provided for in the tables contained in SI 585/2001, the same shall be converted to euro by reference to the fixed conversion rate and the second decimal of the resultant amount shall be rounded down where the digit in the third decimal place is .4 or below and shall be rounded up where it is .5 or above.