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The Land Registration Fees Order 1996

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Articles 2, 3, 16 & 17

SCHEDULE 1SCALE 1

Note: Where the amount or value is a figure which includes pence, it may be rounded down to the nearest £1.

Value or amountFee
££
0–30,00040
30,001–40,00060
40,001–50,00080
50,001–60,000100
60,001–70,000120
70,001–80,000140
80,001–90,000170
90,001–100,000200
100,001–150,000230
150,001–200,000260
200,001–300,000300
300,001–500,000400
500,001–700,000500
700,001–1,000,000600
1,000,001–2,000,000900
2,000,001–5,000,0001200
5,000,001 and over1800

Articles 4 & 5

SCHEDULE 2SCALE 2

Note: Where the amount or value is a figure which includes pence, it may be rounded down to the nearest £1.

Amount or valueFee
££
0–100,00040
100,001–200,00050
200,0001–500,00070
500,001–1,000,000100
1,000,001 and over200

Article 10

SCHEDULE 3

PART IFIXED FEE APPLICATIONS

Fee

(1) To register or modify a caution, a restriction (other than a restriction to which paragraph (9) of Schedule 4 applies), a notice (including a priority notice), an inhibition, or a note for which no other provision is made by this Order and for which the Registrar considers a fee should be paid:

  • for the first title affected

£40
  • for each subsequent title affected

£20
Provided that no such fee shall be payable if, in relation to each registered title affected, the application is accompanied by a scale fee application or another application which attracts a fee under this paragraph.

(2) To close or partly close a registered leasehold or rentcharge title other than on surrender (whether or not the surrender is for monetary consideration and whether effected by deed or otherwise)—for each title closed or partly closed

£40
Provided that no such fee shall be payable if the application is accompanied by a scale fee application.

(3) To convert from one class of title to another

£40
Provided that no fee shall be payable if the application for conversion is accompanied by a scale fee application.

(4) Application under rule 271 in relation to a lost or destroyed land certificate or charge certificate (in addition to the cost of any advertisement):

(a)where a replacement certificate is issued

£40

(b)where a replacement certificate is not issued

£20

(5) First registration of a title to a rentcharge

£40

(6) To cancel an entry in the register of notice of an unregistered rentcharge which has determined on merger, redemption or otherwise—for each title affected

£40
Provided that no such fee shall be payable if the application is accompanied by a scale fee application.

PART IISERVICES—INSPECTION AND COPYING

(1) Inspection of the register or any part of the register, to include the making of a copy of or extract from the register, on any one occasion when a person gains access to the Registrar’s computer system by means of that person’s remote terminal pursuant to the rule 4A of the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991—per title

£3

(2) Inspection (otherwise than under paragraph (1) above):

(a)of the register or any part thereof—per title

£5

(b)of the title plan—per title

£5

(c)of any or all of the documents referred to in the register (other than documents referred to in paragraph (4) below)—per title

£5

(3) Office copy in respect of a registered title:

(a)of the register or any part thereof—per copy

£5

(b)of the title plan—per copy

£5

(c)of any or all of the documents referred to in the register (other than documents referred to in paragraph (4) below)—per copy or set

£5

(4) Inspection or office copy (or both) in relation to:

(a)a lease or mortgage referred to in the register, or a copy thereof; or

(b)any document not referred to in a register;

  • per document

£10

(5) Application to the Registrar to ascertain the title number or numbers (if any) under which land is registered where the applicant seeks to inspect or to be supplied with an office copy of a register or part of a register or of a title plan and the applicant has not supplied a title number, or the title number supplied does not relate to any part of the land described by the applicant

£5

PART IIISERVICES—SEARCHES

(1) An official search of the register or of a pending first registration application

£5

(2) A search of the register made by telephone

£5

(3) The issue of an official certificate of inspection of the title plan

£5

(4) Subject to article 10(4), an official search of the Index Map:

(a)where any part of the land to which the search relates is registered—per registered title in respect of which a result is given

£5

(b)where no part of the land to which the search relates is registered—per application

£5

(5) Official search of the index of proprietors' names—per name

£10

PART IVSERVICES—OTHER INFORMATION

(1) Application to be supplied with the name and address of the registered proprietor of land identified by its postal address—per application

£5

(2) The supply by the Registrar of a copy of an Index Map section—per copy

£50

(3) The supply of information under section 129 of the Act—per registered title in respect of which information is supplied

£10

PART VSERVICES—MISCELLANEOUS

(1) To take an affidavit or declaration

£5

(2) To take exhibits to an affidavit or declaration—per exhibit

£2

Article 11

SCHEDULE 4EXEMPTIONS

No fee shall be payable in respect of:

(1) making a land certificate or charge certificate correspond with the register;

(2) changing the name, address or description of a registered proprietor or other person referred to on the register, or changing the description of a property;

(3) giving effect on the register to a change of proprietor where the registered land or the registered charge, as the case may be, has become vested without further assurance (other than on the death or bankruptcy of a proprietor) in some person by the operation of any statute (other than the Act), statutory instrument or scheme taking effect under any statute or statutory instrument;

(4) registering a discharge of a registered charge;

(5) registering a notice or renewal of a caution or notice pursuant to the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983(1);

(6) registering a withdrawal of a notice of deposit or intended deposit of a land certificate or charge certificate;

(7) entering on the register the death of a joint proprietor;

(8) registering a disposition to which section 145(2) of the Act (dispositions otherwise than for valuable consideration by personal representatives of a deceased proprietor registered as such) applies;

(9) registering a restriction which is obligatory under section 58(3) of the Act;

(10) cancelling the registration of a notice (other than a notice in respect of an unregistered lease or unregistered rentcharge), caution, inhibition, restriction or note;

(11) approving an estate layout plan or any draft document with or without a plan;

(12) issuing of a summons under the seal of the Land Registry;

(13) an order by the Registrar.

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