{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-2003/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-2003/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2092",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Fee Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transfers otherwise than for monetary consideration, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Unless the application is a large scale application (where article 6 applies), the fee for an application for the registration of—\n(a) a transfer of a registered estate otherwise than for monetary consideration (unless paragraph (2) applies);\n(b) a surrender of a registered leasehold estate otherwise than for monetary consideration;\n(c) a transmission of a registered estate on death or bankruptcy;\n(d) an assent of a registered estate (including a vesting assent);\n(e) an appropriation of a registered estate;\n(f) a vesting order or declaration to which section 27(5) of the Act applies;\n(g) an alteration of the register (unless paragraph (3) applies); or\n(h) a transfer of a matrimonial home (being a registered estate) made pursuant to an order of the Court,\nis payable under Scale 2 on the value of the registered estate which is the subject of the application, assessed under article 7, but after deducting from it the amount secured on the registered estate by any charge subject to which the registration takes effect.\n(2) Where a transfer of a registered estate otherwise than for monetary consideration is for the purpose of giving effect to the disposition of a share in a registered estate the fee for an application for its registration is payable under Scale 2 on the value of that share.\n(3) In any application for alteration of the register—\n(a) if it appears to the registrar that the fee is excessive, he may reduce it; and\n(b) if it appears to him unreasonable that the applicant should pay a fee, he may waive it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2092/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:02:29.650647+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."
}