{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1991/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1991/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1948",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Fees Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration Fees (No. 2) Order 1990, may be cited as the Land Registration Fees Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st November 1991.\n(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires:\n“account holder” means a person or firm holding a credit account;\n“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;\n“charge” includes sub-charge;\n“credit account” means an account authorised by the Registrar under article 15(1);\n“Index Map section” means the document or documents comprising a single section of the Index Maps maintained by the Registrar under rule 8 of the principal rules, and the associated Parcels Index (if any) maintained by the Registrar under rule 274 of the principal rules;\n“licensed conveyancer” has the same meaning as in section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 and includes a recognised body within the meaning of section 32(2) of that Act;\n“monetary consideration” means a consideration in money or money’s worth (other than a nominal consideration or a consideration consisting solely of a covenant to pay money owing under a mortgage);\n“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925 ;\n“scale fee” means a fee payable in accordance with a scale set out in Schedule 1 or 2;\n“Schedule” means a Schedule to this Order;\n“share in registered land” means a share in the proceeds of sale of registered land held on trust for sale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2029."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. & O. 1925/1093; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/2214, 1989/801, 1990/314."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1948/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:38:53.210713+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."
}