{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-1988/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-1988/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/665",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Fee Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-1988",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Exceptional work and costs",
  "text": "(1) If the Registrar considers that an application for:\n(a) a search of the index map;\n(b) first registration (other than an application founded upon an assurance inducing compulsory registration of title); or\n(c) conversion from one class of title to another;\nentails an exceptional amount of work, such fee or additional fee shall be payable as the Registrar shall direct without having regard to any maximum fee.\n(2) Notification of the fee or additional fee shall be given to the applicant and, if he then elects to withdraw his application, any fee already paid thereon shall be refunded.\n(3) If in the course of dealing with any application, the Registrar directs publication of an advertisement, the making of a survey (other than a survey to identify on the ordnance map land which is registered or is required to be registered under section 123 of the Act or is in a compulsory area) or any other special enquiry, the costs so incurred shall be defrayed by the applicant unless the Registrar directs to the contrary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/665/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:13.645378+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}