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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-no-2-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2029",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Fees (No. 2) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-no-2-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Order, which, as from 3rd December 1990, supersedes the Land Registration Fee Order 1990, revises the land registration fee scales and makes certain other changes.\nThe value bands in the principal fee scale, Scale A, are reduced in number and widened, rising from a minimum fee of £30 in relation to values up to £20,000, up to a maximum fee of £950 in relation to values exceeding £5,000,000.\nThe other changes include:\n(1) The fee for fixed fee applications is increased from £25 to £30, in line with the minimum scale fee (proviso to article 2(2), article 7(1), article 12 and Schedule 3, Part II);\n(2) The abatement of fees in cases where surrender of a lease is consideration or part consideration for the grant of a new lease now applies only where the new lease is one for the registration of which a scale fee is paid (article 2(3)(c) and 2 (5) (c) and Abatement 2 in Schedule 4, Part I);\n(3) The basis of the valuation of land on first registration where application is made on the purchase of a leasehold estate by the reversioner, or of a reversion by the leaseholder and merger of an unregistered interest takes place, is extended to all cases where an unregistered interest is determined by way or merger, surrender or otherwise (article 3(3));\n(4) The provision applying a fixed fee for each separate area of land or registered title comprised in certain large scale applications is amended so that the minimum number of separate areas or registered titles to which they apply in reduced to 50 and the fixed fee is increased to £15 for each such area or title (article 6);\n(5) The fee for an application in Form 112A or Form 112B of the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1990 (applications for information in relation to criminal investigations and insolvencies) is to be the aggregate of the fees for the services provided, subject to a maximum fee for any one application of £150 (article 792));\n(6) Provision is reintroduced regulating the refund of fees and of overpayments (article 9);\n(7) The maximum fee for any one application to register or modify a caution, restriction, notice or inhibition, or other note for which the Register considers a fee should be paid is increased from £500 to £600 (article 7(1) and proviso (b) to paragraph (1) of Schedule 3, Part I);\n(8) The fee for an official search of the index of proprietors' names is increased from £10 to £12 (article 7(1) and paragraph (1) if Schedule 3, Part II);\n(9) Separate fees of £6 are payable in respect of office copies of each the register and the filed plan of a title (article 7(1) and paragraph (3) of Schedule 3, Part II);\n(10) A fee of £6 is payable for supplying title number information in relation to an application in Form 109 or Form 111 in Schedule 1 to the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1990 where no, or an incorrect, title number is supplied (article 7(1) and paragraph (5) of Schedule 3, Part II);\n(11) The fee for telephone or telex searches and for searches without priority is reduced from £10 to £6 (article 7(1) and paragraphs (6) and (7) of Schedule 3, Part II);\n(12) No fee is payable for registering an obligatory restriction under section 58(3) of the Land Registration Act 1925 (article 8(2) and paragraph (8) of Schedule 4, Part II).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2029/note",
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  },
  "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."
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