{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1997/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1997/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Registration Fees Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "EXEMPTIONS",
  "text": "No fee shall be payable in respect of:\n(1) making a land certificate or charge certificate correspond with the register;\n(2) changing the name, address or description of a registered proprietor or other person referred to on the register, or changing the description of a property;\n(3) giving effect on the register to a change of proprietor where the registered land 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(4) registering a discharge of a registered charge;\n(5) registering a notice or renewal of a caution or notice pursuant to the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983;\n(6) registering a withdrawal of a notice of deposit or intended deposit of a land certificate or charge certificate;\n(7) entering on the register the death of a joint proprietor;\n(8) registering a disposition to which section 145(2) of the Act (dispositions otherwise than for valuable consideration by personal representatives of a deceased proprietor registered as such) applies;\n(9) registering a restriction which is obligatory under section 58(3) of the Act;\n(10) cancelling the registration of a notice (other than a notice in respect of an unregistered lease or unregistered rentcharge), caution, inhibition, restriction or note;\n(11) approving an estate layout plan or any draft document with or without a plan;\n(12) issuing of a summons under the seal of the Land Registry;\n(13) an order by the Registrar.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/178/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:59.256373+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."
}