# The Land Registration Fees Order 2001, Article 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration Fees Order 1999, may be cited as the Land Registration Fees Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st May 2001.
(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires:
“account holder” means a person or firm holding a credit account;
“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;
“charge” includes a sub-charge;
“credit account” means an account authorised by the Registrar under article 17(2);
“day list information” has the same meaning as in the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991;
“Index Map section” has the same meaning as in the Land Registration (Open Register) Rules 1991;
“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;
“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);
“outline application” has the same meaning as in rule 83A of the principal rules;
“the principal rules” means the Land Registration Rules 1925;
“scale fee” means a fee payable in accordance with a scale set out in Schedule 1 or 2 whether or not reduced in accordance with article 2(5);
“scale fee application” means an application which attracts a scale fee, or which would attract such a fee but for the operation of article 6;
“Schedule” means a Schedule to this Order;
“share”, in relation to land, means an interest in that land under a trust of land.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1179/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-fees-order-2001/article-1
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