# The Fees in the Registers of Scotland Order 1991

S.I. 1991/2093 · made 10 September 1991

This Order sets out new fees for services provided by the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency. The Order, which revokes the previous Fee Orders of 1981 and 1990, consolidates the provisions of those Orders, introduces certain new services and charges, streamlines some earlier provisions and increases some fees to take account of inflation and the actual costs of provision of services.The main changes are as follows:–revised bandings with appropriate fees have been introduced in relation to values exceeding £200,000 in both Table A and Table B fees. The value bands have also been extended to reflect the general increase in property prices with the top band now being £1,000,000 or over in place of the previous £250,000 or over. The maximum fees have been increased to £1,000 in place of the previous £550 for Table A and £500 in place of the previous £275 for Table B (Part XI); andrevised capitalisation arrangements for transactions with considerations including or consisting of periodical payments (Part I, 1 and Part II, 1);other changes and new services introduced are as follows:–a fee of £5 has been introduced for the new service provided of verbal and/or facsimile reports from the Land Register (Part I, 2);the fees exigible in respect of multiple deeds arising from a single transaction have been regularised. Detailed provisions have been incorporated in Part III of the Order relating to both Sasine and Land Registration transactions;fees of £3.50 and £1 respectively have been introduced for new services of colour copy plans and duplicate microfiches (Part X);a fee of £25 has been specified for the postal enquiries service (Part X);fees for a number of specific and rarely, if ever, used registration services have been dropped. In view of the difficulty in setting specified and realistic fees for such services, they will now be charged on the basis of the value of the work and materials involved. These relate to:–General Register of HorningsRegister of EntailsPrecept RecordsRegister of the Prince’s Seal; andwhere a deed has to be both recorded in the Sasine Register and registered in the Land Register a fee will now be charged for both Registers;a number of fees are increased to take account of inflation. These are:–fees for Form 10 and 12 Reports in the Land Register have been increased from £15 to £16.50 in each case. (Part I, 2); andfees for Forms P16 and P17 Reports (applications for checking boundaries) have been increased from £15 to £16.50 in each case. (Part I, 3); anda number of fees for services have been altered to take account of the actual costs of the work involved. These include:–fees for Form 11 and 13 Reports have been reduced from £15 to £10.00 (Part I, 2);a fixed fee of £22 has been introduced in respect of Miscellaneous Services in the Land Register namely applications on Form 5 (previously £5), Form 8 (previously £20), Form 9 and for cancellation of an application for registration for which no charge was previously levied (Part I, 3);the bands for Searching Fees have been simplified and fees increased by an average of 60% (Part II, 2);the fee for provision of interim reports has been increased from £3 to £5 (Part II, 2);the fee for writs recorded by Memorandum in the Register of Sasines has been increased from £2 to £11 (Part II, 1c);a flat rate fee of £7 has been introduced for registration in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications in place of the previous fee based on the number of pages involved. This is to reflect the fact that most writs for this Register are of limited size (Part IV);fees for registration in the Register of Deeds etc, Register of Protests and Register of Judgments have been increased to £5 from £3.70 in the case of registration of deeds and Certificates of Judgments and from £2.90 in the case of Protests of Bills or Promissory Notes. The fee of 75 pence per page takes account of the significant variation in the lengths of such deeds (Part V);the fee for registration of Decree of Service of Heirs has been increased from £2.20 to £22 (Part VI);the fee for a Charter of Incorporation has been increased from £133 to £170; the fee for a Charter of Novodamus or other Crown Grant of land has been increased from £21 to £22; the fee for a Commission under the Great Seal has been increased from £131 to £370 (Part VII);the fee for each impression of the Cachet Seal has been increased from £0.75 to £6.00 (Part VIII);the fee for each gift of Ultimus Haeres registered in the Register of the Quarter Seal has been increased from £16.80 to £22.00 (Part IX); andthe fees for certain inspection, copying and other services applicable to all Registers have been increased as follows:–from £4.00 to £5.00 for the inspection of indexes and volumes (now in line with the other Inspection Fees);from £0.65 to £1.00 for a copy black and white plan;from £3.50 to £7.50 for a record transmitted to a court;from £42 to £100 for attendance by one of the Keeper’s staff in court for each day or part of a day; andfrom £2.60 to £4.00 for a Certificate issued under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and for a Certificate of Custody(Part X).

Made under: 1868 c. 64

## Introductory text

REGISTERS AND RECORDS, SCOTLAND
Made 10th September 1991
Coming into force 16th October 1991
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25 of the Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868() and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Fees in the Registers of Scotland Order 1991 and shall come into force on 16th October 1991.

## 2 Interpretation

In the Schedule to this Order–
(a) “the Act” means the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979();
(b) “dealing” and “Certificate of Title” shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as they have in the Land Registration (Scotland) Rules 1980();
(c) in Parts I, II and III, “fixed fee” means a fee equivalent to the lowest fee specified in Table A in Part XI of the Schedule to this Order;
(d) any expression which is also used in the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as it has in the Act; and
(e) any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in Schedule A to the Land Registration (Scotland) Rules 1980.

## 3 Fees

The fees payable in respect of the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order, being matters relating to registration or recording in the registers under the management and control of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland and to the provision by the Keeper of searches, reports, certificates or other documents or copies of any document or of information from any such register, shall be the fees specified in relation to those matters in that Schedule.

## 4 Revocations

The Fees in the Department of the Registers of Scotland Order 1981() and the Fees in the Department of the Registers of Scotland (Amendment) Order 1990() are hereby revoked.

## Signature

James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
31st August 1991
We Consent
Sidney Chapman
Irvine Patnick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
10th September 1991

## Schedule: TABLE OF FEES IN THE REGISTERS OF SCOTLAND

### Part I –: LAND REGISTER OF SCOTLAND

## 1. REGISTRATION FEES

When application is made for–
(a) registration of an unregistered interest in land in pursuance of section 2(1) of the Act;
(b) registration of the creation over a registered interest in land of a liferent or an incorporeal heritable right in pursuance of section 2(3) of the Act; or
(c) registration of any transfer of a registered interest in land (not being a heritable security) in pursuance of section 2(4) of the Act,
the fee to be charged shall be calculated as follows:–
(i) where the interest in land to which the registration relates has been created, granted or transferred for a consideration, on the amount of the consideration or the value of that interest, whichever is the greater; or
(ii) in any other case, on the value of the interest in land to which the registration relates except that, where an application is made to register an interest or interests in land excambed, a fee will be charged on the value of the interest to which the application relates,
and shall be at the rates shown in Table A in Part XI of this Schedule, subject to the provisions of Part III of this Schedule and to the following provisions:–
(a) where the consideration consists of a yearly or periodical payment, the amount of that consideration shall be the capitalised amount of the payment, calculated at 10 years' purchase;
(b) where a single application, not being an application to register a Transfer of Part of a registered interest in land, affects a number of Title Sheets, the fee to be charged shall be based on the amount of the consideration or the value of the interest in land created, granted or transferred, whichever is the greater, plus a fixed fee for every Title Sheet affected other than the first;
(c) where an application is made to give effect to a survivorship destination only, a fixed fee will be charged.

## 2. REPORTS

When application is made–
£
(a) on Form 10 for a Report prior to first Registration
16.50
(b) on Form 11 for continuation of Report prior to first Registration
10.00
(c) on Form 12 for a Report over Registered Subjects
16.50
(d) on Form 13 for continuation of Report over Registered Subjects
10.00
(e) on Form 14 for a Report to ascertain whether or not Subjects have been registered
16.50
(f) where a verbal or facsimile Report is requested in addition to items (a) to (e) above, for each such Report
5.00

## 3. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES

When application is made–
£
(a) on Form 5 for Noting of Overriding Interest etc.
22.00
(b) on Form 8 for Certificate of Title to be made to correspond with Title Sheet
22.00
(c) on Form 9 for Rectification of Register
22.00
(d) on Form P16 for comparison of a bounding description with the Ordnance Map
16.50
(e) on Form P17 for comparison of the boundaries on the Certificate Plan with the Ordnance Map
16.50
(f) for checking the boundaries of adjoining properties
16.50
(g) for a Substitute Certificate of Title
22.00
(h) for cancellation of an application in terms of rules 10 and 12 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Rules 1980()
22.00

### Part II –: GENERAL REGISTER OF SASINES

## 1. RECORDING FEES

In respect of the recording of a conveyance, including absolute conveyance, voluntary or judicial, either for a price or as a gift or in implement of trust or other purpose, completion of title by decree or by Notice of Title, feu-right, lease, deed creating a ground annual or other yearly or periodical payment where there is a transfer of heritable subjects not in security, and generally all deeds transferring an absolute right to heritable subjects, the fee to be charged shall be calculated as follows:–
(a) where a conveyance for a consideration is recorded, on the amount of the consideration or the value of the heritable subjects transferred or passing, whichever is the greater; or
(b) in any other case, on the value of the heritable subjects transferred or passing;
and shall be at the rates shown in Table A in Part XI of this Schedule subject to the provisions of Part III of this Schedule and to the following provisions:–
(i) where the consideration consists of a yearly or periodical payment, the amount of that consideration shall be the capitalised amount of the payment, calculated at 10 years' purchase;
(ii) where an excambion is effected by more than one deed, a fee will be charged for each deed on the value of the subjects therein, and where an excambion is effected by one deed, the fee will be calculated on the total value of the subjects therein;
(iii) where a Notice of Title is recorded along with another deed feuing or leasing the whole of the same subjects a fixed fee will be charged on that Notice of Title.

## 2. SEARCHING FEES

For every Search:–
£
For any period not exceeding 5 years
12.00
from 6 to 10 years
14.00
” 11 to 20 ”
16.00
” 21 to 30 ”
18.00
” 31 to 40 ”
20.00
over 40 years
25.00
Plus £5.00 for each group of 6 names or less searched for in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications.
Interim Reports
£
Interim Report prior to completion of Search
5.00
Plus £5.00 for each group of 6 names or less searched for in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications.

### Part III –: FEES FOR REGISTRATIONS AND RECORDINGS IN BOTH THE LAND AND SASINE REGISTERS

## 1. RECORDING AND REGISTRATION FEES FOR SINGLE TRANSACTIONS EFFECTED BY MORE THAN ONE DEED AND/OR APPLICATION

Where a single transaction, other than an excambion, is given effect to in a deed or deeds presented for recording in the Register of Sasines and/or by an application or applications for registration in the Land Register, and due notice is given to the Keeper of the nature of that transaction the fees to be charged in respect of that transaction shall be as follows:–
(i) where the transaction is first given effect to by a deed presented in the Register of Sasines, a fee based on the amount of the consideration, or the total value of the heritable interest created, granted or transferred, whichever is the greater, will be charged on the first deed so presented, plus a fixed fee for every related deed presented in the Register of Sasines and for every Title Sheet affected by a related application for registration in the Land Register; or
(ii) where the transaction is first given effect to by an application for registration in the Land Register, a fee based on the amount of the consideration, or the total value of the interest in land created, granted or transferred, whichever is the greater, will be charged in respect of the first application, plus a fixed fee for every other Title Sheet affected by that application and by every other related application, and for every related deed presented for recording in the Register of Sasines;

## 2. MISCELLANEOUS

£
1 Registration or recording of Receipts under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965()
0.25
2 Registration or recording of other miscellaneous transactions and events not included under Heads A and B of Parts I and II
22.00

## IV – REGISTER OF INHIBITIONS AND ADJUDICATIONS

Registration Fees
£
For each document
7.00

## V – REGISTER OF DEEDS &C., REGISTER OF PROTESTS AND REGISTER OF JUDGMENTS

Registration Fees
£
Note: The extracting and authentication of the first or only extract is included in the foregoing fees.
For a document of one page
5.00
For each additional page
0.75

## VI – REGISTER OF SERVICE OF HEIRS

Registration Fees
£
Note: Extracting and authentication fees are included in the registration fee.
For each document
£22.00

## VII – REGISTER OF THE GREAT SEAL

Registration Fees
£
1. For a Charter of Incorporation
170.00
2. For a Charter of Novodamus or other Crown Grant of land
22.00
3. For a Commission
370.00

## VIII – REGISTER OF THE CACHET SEAL

For each impression
£6.00

## IX – REGISTER OF THE QUARTER SEAL

Registration Fees
For each Gift of Ultimus Haeres
£22.00

## X – FEES APPLICABLE TO ALL REGISTERS

1. Inspection Fees
£
Note: These fees do not apply where the information is available on request on a numbered form.
1. For searching of any Search Sheet affecting one property
5.00
2. For exhibition of a Title Sheet
5.00
3. For the inspection of any other index, and volume, document or process
5.00
2. Extracting and copying fees
£
Note: A handling fee is not charged for orders placed at the time of registration.
1. For each page of an official extract, certified copy, plain copy or duplicate
0.30
2. For each page of an office copy, within the meaning of section 6(5) of the Act (or part thereof other than the plan)
0.30
3. For a plan (A4 size) (black and white)
1.00
For a plan (A4 size) (colour)
3.50
For a plan (larger than A4 size)
A fee being the value of the work and materials involved.
4. For each fiche of duplicate copies of existing microfiche
1.00
5. For the authentication of each official extract, certified copy, duplicate or office copy
2.50
6. For the handling of second and subsequent extracts and for copies
3.00
3. Other Services
£
1. For a record retransmitted or transmitted to any court or exhibited therein, at the instance of a party, in accordance with the Rules of Court governing such transmissions or exhibitions
7.50
2. For attendance by an officer of the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency at any court to produce a record in evidence, for each day or part of a day, in addition to travelling expenses
100.00
Note:
At the discretion of the Keeper where an Officer of the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency attends with records for any purpose approved by the Keeper a lesser fee of £20 per hour may be applied. Travelling expenses may also be charged.
3. For each Certificate issued under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982()
4.00
4. For each Certificate of Custody that a deed is retained for permanent preservation
4.00
5. For searches in records arising from postal enquiries, for each search
25.00
Note:–
(i) For persons unable to make a personal search in records the Keeper’s staff may conduct searches over such records and subject to such conditions as the Keeper may prescribe. The Keeper has discretion to reduce or waive the charge in appropriate cases and reserves the right to decline such searches.
(ii) The Keeper may require a deposit of a sum not exceeding £30.00 in the case of requests of a large nature.
6. For any service not specifically listed above
A fee being the value of the work and materials involved.

## XI —TABLES OF FEES

1. TABLE A
Consideration or Value
Fee
£
£
does not exceed
10,000
22.00
does not exceed
15,000
33.00
does not exceed
20,000
44.00
does not exceed
25,000
55.00
does not exceed
30,000
66.00
does not exceed
35,000
77.00
does not exceed
40,000
88.00
does not exceed
45,000
99.00
does not exceed
50,000
110.00
does not exceed
55,000
121.00
does not exceed
60,000
132.00
does not exceed
65,000
143.00
does not exceed
70,000
154.00
does not exceed
75,000
165.00
does not exceed
80,000
176.00
does not exceed
85,000
187.00
does not exceed
90,000
198.00
does not exceed
95,000
209.00
does not exceed
100,000
220.00
does not exceed
105,000
231.00
does not exceed
110,000
242.00
does not exceed
115,000
253.00
does not exceed
120,000
264.00
does not exceed
125,000
275.000
does not exceed
130,000
286.00
does not exceed
135,000
297.00
does not exceed
140,000
308.00
does not exceed
145,000
319.00
does not exceed
150,000
330.00
does not exceed
155,000
341.00
does not exceed
160,000
352.00
does not exceed
165,000
363.00
does not exceed
170,000
374.00
does not exceed
175,000
385.00
does not exceed
180,000
396.00
does not exceed
185,000
407.00
does not exceed
195,000
429.00
does not exceed
200,000
440.00
does not exceed
300,000
500.00
does not exceed
400,000
550.00
does not exceed
500,000
600.00
does not exceed
600,000
650.00
does not exceed
700,000
700.00
does not exceed
800,000
800.00
does not exceed
1,000,000
900.00
exceeds
1,000,000
1,000.00
2. TABLE B
Amount
Fee
£
£
does not exceed
20,000
22.00
does not exceed
30,000
33.00
does not exceed
40,000
44.00
does not exceed
50,000
55.00
does not exceed
60,000
66.00
does not exceed
70,000
77.00
does not exceed
80,000
88.00
does not exceed
90,000
99.00
does not exceed
100,000
110.00
does not exceed
110,000
121.00
does not exceed
120,000
132.00
does not exceed
130,000
143.00
does not exceed
140,000
154.00
does not exceed
150,000
165.00
does not exceed
160,000
176.00
does not exceed
170,000
187.00
does not exceed
180,000
198.00
does not exceed
190,000
209.00
does not exceed
200,000
220.00
does not exceed
300,000
250.00
does not exceed
400,000
275.00
does not exceed
500,000
300.00
does not exceed
600,000
325.00
does not exceed
700,000
350.00
does not exceed
800,000
400.00
does not exceed
1,000,000
450.00
exceeds
1,000,000
500.00

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order sets out new fees for services provided by the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency. The Order, which revokes the previous Fee Orders of 1981 and 1990, consolidates the provisions of those Orders, introduces certain new services and charges, streamlines some earlier provisions and increases some fees to take account of inflation and the actual costs of provision of services.
(i) The main changes are as follows:–
(a) revised bandings with appropriate fees have been introduced in relation to values exceeding £200,000 in both Table A and Table B fees. The value bands have also been extended to reflect the general increase in property prices with the top band now being £1,000,000 or over in place of the previous £250,000 or over. The maximum fees have been increased to £1,000 in place of the previous £550 for Table A and £500 in place of the previous £275 for Table B (Part XI); and
(b) revised capitalisation arrangements for transactions with considerations including or consisting of periodical payments (Part I, 1 and Part II, 1);
(ii) other changes and new services introduced are as follows:–
(a) a fee of £5 has been introduced for the new service provided of verbal and/or facsimile reports from the Land Register (Part I, 2);
(b) the fees exigible in respect of multiple deeds arising from a single transaction have been regularised. Detailed provisions have been incorporated in Part III of the Order relating to both Sasine and Land Registration transactions;
(c) fees of £3.50 and £1 respectively have been introduced for new services of colour copy plans and duplicate microfiches (Part X);
(d) a fee of £25 has been specified for the postal enquiries service (Part X);
(e) fees for a number of specific and rarely, if ever, used registration services have been dropped. In view of the difficulty in setting specified and realistic fees for such services, they will now be charged on the basis of the value of the work and materials involved. These relate to:–
General Register of Hornings
Register of Entails
Precept Records
Register of the Prince’s Seal; and
(f) where a deed has to be both recorded in the Sasine Register and registered in the Land Register a fee will now be charged for both Registers;
(iii) a number of fees are increased to take account of inflation. These are:–
(a) fees for Form 10 and 12 Reports in the Land Register have been increased from £15 to £16.50 in each case. (Part I, 2); and
(b) fees for Forms P16 and P17 Reports (applications for checking boundaries) have been increased from £15 to £16.50 in each case. (Part I, 3); and
(iv) a number of fees for services have been altered to take account of the actual costs of the work involved. These include:–
(a) fees for Form 11 and 13 Reports have been reduced from £15 to £10.00 (Part I, 2);
(b) a fixed fee of £22 has been introduced in respect of Miscellaneous Services in the Land Register namely applications on Form 5 (previously £5), Form 8 (previously £20), Form 9 and for cancellation of an application for registration for which no charge was previously levied (Part I, 3);
(c) the bands for Searching Fees have been simplified and fees increased by an average of 60% (Part II, 2);
(d) the fee for provision of interim reports has been increased from £3 to £5 (Part II, 2);
(e) the fee for writs recorded by Memorandum in the Register of Sasines has been increased from £2 to £11 (Part II, 1c);
(f) a flat rate fee of £7 has been introduced for registration in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications in place of the previous fee based on the number of pages involved. This is to reflect the fact that most writs for this Register are of limited size (Part IV);
(g) fees for registration in the Register of Deeds etc, Register of Protests and Register of Judgments have been increased to £5 from £3.70 in the case of registration of deeds and Certificates of Judgments and from £2.90 in the case of Protests of Bills or Promissory Notes. The fee of 75 pence per page takes account of the significant variation in the lengths of such deeds (Part V);
(h) the fee for registration of Decree of Service of Heirs has been increased from £2.20 to £22 (Part VI);
(i) the fee for a Charter of Incorporation has been increased from £133 to £170; the fee for a Charter of Novodamus or other Crown Grant of land has been increased from £21 to £22; the fee for a Commission under the Great Seal has been increased from £131 to £370 (Part VII);
(j) the fee for each impression of the Cachet Seal has been increased from £0.75 to £6.00 (Part VIII);
(k) the fee for each gift of Ultimus Haeres registered in the Register of the Quarter Seal has been increased from £16.80 to £22.00 (Part IX); and
(l) the fees for certain inspection, copying and other services applicable to all Registers have been increased as follows:–
(1) from £4.00 to £5.00 for the inspection of indexes and volumes (now in line with the other Inspection Fees);
(2) from £0.65 to £1.00 for a copy black and white plan;
(3) from £3.50 to £7.50 for a record transmitted to a court;
(4) from £42 to £100 for attendance by one of the Keeper’s staff in court for each day or part of a day; and
(5) from £2.60 to £4.00 for a Certificate issued under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and for a Certificate of Custody(Part X).

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