{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-2003/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fee-order-2003/schedule-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": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "EXEMPTIONS",
  "text": "No fee is payable in respect of:\n(1) reflecting a change in the name, address or description of a registered proprietor or other person referred to in the register, or in the cautions register, or changing the description of a property;\n(2) giving effect in the register to a change of proprietor where the registered estate 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;\n(3) registering the surrender of a registered leasehold estate where the surrender is consideration or part consideration for the grant of a new lease to the registered proprietor of substantially the same premises as were comprised in the surrendered lease and where a scale fee is paid for the registration of the new lease;\n(4) registering a discharge of a registered charge;\n(5) registering a matrimonial home rights notice, or renewal of such a notice, or renewal of a matrimonial home rights caution under the Family Law Act 1996;\n(6) entering in the register the death of a joint proprietor;\n(7) cancelling the registration of a notice, (other than a notice in respect of an unregistered lease or unregistered rentcharge), caution against first registration, caution against dealings, including a withdrawal of a deposit or intended deposit, inhibition, restriction, or note;\n(8) the removal of the designation of a document as an exempt information document;\n(9) approving an estate layout plan or any draft document with or without a plan;\n(10) an order by the registrar (other than an order under section 41(2) of the Act);\n(11) deregistering a manor;\n(12) an entry in the register of a note of the dissolution of a corporation;\n(13) registering a restriction in form A in Schedule 4 to the rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2092/schedule/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."
}