Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, which, as from 1st October 1997, supersedes the Land Registration Fees Order 1997, amends the land registration fee scales and makes certain other changes. Overall the new fee scales effect a reduction of fees.
The changes made by the Order include the following:
Scale 1, which sets out the fees for applications for first registration of title to land and for transfers of registered land for monetary consideration, is shortened, and the fees for applications within certain value bands are reduced (articles 2 and 3; Schedule 1).
Where, on an application for first registration of a lease, the monetary consideration given by the lessee as part of the same transaction by way of fine, premium or otherwise consists of or includes the surrender of a registered lease of substantially the same premises as are comprised in the lease to be registered, provision is made for the value of the surrendered lease to be discounted for the purpose of calculating the amount on which the fee for registration of the new lease is to be paid (article 2(4)).
The fee for an official search with priority of the register or of a pending first registration application is reduced from £4 to £2 where the application is delivered to the Registrar by means of an applicant’s remote terminal communicating with the Registrar’s computer system (article 10; Schedule 3, Part III, paragraph (1)).
No fee is payable for the registration of the surrender of a registered lease (whether effected by deed or otherwise) 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 (article 11; Schedule 4, paragraph (4)).