Article 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

The title of these Rules is the Local Land Charges (Fees) (Wales) Rules 2021.

These Rules come into force on 1 April 2021 but Rules 2, 3, 4 and 5 only have effect in relation to the area of a local authority, on the date on which Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 5 to the Infrastructure Act 2015^f1 come into effect in relation to that area.

In these Rules—

• “definitive certificate” (“tystysgrif diffiniol”) means a certificate issued by the Upper Tribunal under section 2(3)(a) of the Rights of Light Act 1959^f2;

• “land” (“tir”) has the same meaning as in section 16 of the Local Land Charges Act 1975;

• “local authority”(“awdurdod lleol”) means the council of a county or county borough in Wales;

• “the principal Rules”(“y prif Reolau”) means the Local Land Charges Rules 2018^f3.