Article 16 Method of payment
Fees payable under this Order shall be collected in money and, subject to article 17:
every fee shall, except where the Registrar otherwise permits, 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.
Where an outline application is made to secure priority for a dealing with registered land which cannot be protected by an official search with priority of the register, the fee payable under paragraph (7) of Part I of Schedule 3 shall be payable on delivery of the application and any other fee payable in respect of the application shall be payable on the subsequent delivery of the necessary form and documentation.