Article 17 Method of payment
Subject to paragraph (2) and to article 18:
every fee shall be paid by means of a cheque or postal order crossed and made payable to H. M. Land Registry;
where the amount of the fee payable on an application is immediately ascertainable, the fee shall be payable on delivery of the application;
where the amount of the fee payable on an application is not immediately ascertainable, on delivery of the application there shall be paid on account of the fee such sum, being not less than the minimum fee payable in accordance with Scale 1 in Schedule 1, as the applicant may reasonably estimate to be the fee payable and there shall be lodged therewith an undertaking to pay on demand the balance of the fee due, if any.
Any person attending at any office of H. M. Land Registry when that office is open to the public may pay in cash all or any part of the fee payable by him for any application capable of being lodged at that office, or in relation to any service available at that office.