Article 14 Method of payment

every fee shall be paid by means of a cheque or postal order crossed and made payable to H. M. Land Registry;

where a fee is paid by means of cheque and it comes to the notice of the Registrar before the application has been completed that the cheque has not been honoured, the application may be cancelled;

where the amount of a fee payable on an application is immediately ascertainable, the fee shall be paid on delivery of the application;

where the amount of a fee payable on an application is not immediately ascertainable, on delivery of the application there shall be paid on account of the fee such sum, being not less than the minimum fee payable in accordance with Scale A in Schedule 1, as the applicant may reasonably estimate to be the fee payable and there shall be lodged therewith an undertaking to pay on demand the balance of the fee due, if any.