Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 265

REGISTRATION OF DEEDS

Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

27th June 1996

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Coming into operation

8th August 1996

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(1) of the Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 8th August 1996.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

• “Matrimonial Charges Index” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(2) of the Matrimonial Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989(3);

• “order charging land” has the same meaning as in Article 46(1) of the Judgements Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(4).

Fees

3.  The fees to be taken in the registry of deeds in respect of the matters set out in column 1 of the Schedule shall be those set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.

Revocation

4.  The Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995(5) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. MacQuarrie

Assistant Secretary

27th June 1996.

Article 3

SCHEDULE 1

Column 1	Column 2
	Fee
Registration 1.—(a) Upon every memorial received for the registration of a document other than a document specified in paragraph 7 of this Schedule	£14·00
(b) Upon every document lodged pursuant to Article 6(6) and 7 of the Family Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 and regulation 3 of the Matrimonial Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989	£14·00
Certificates of Registration 2.  For every special certificate of registration	£14·00
Common Search or Negative Search made by Office under a Requisition 3.  By time taken to produce each finished search for each half-hour or part thereof	£4·00
Search by Members of the Public 4.  Search by every person each half-hour or part thereof	£2·00
Copies made in Registry of Deeds 5.—(a) For every copy of a memorial or affidavit of judgement (including the search for such memorial or affidavit of judgement and certificate of the office on the copy)	£5·50
(b) For every copy of a copy document filed pursuant to regulation 3(2)(a) of the Matrimonial Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 (including the search for such copy document and certificate of the office on the copy)	£5·50
(c) For every copy of an abstract of a memorial or affidavit of judgement not included in a statement of a common search or a certificate of a negative search (including the search for such abstract and certificate of the office on the copy)	£5·50
(d) For every copy of a page of the Matrimonial Charges Index (including the search for such page and certificate of the office on the copy)	£5·50
(e) For every copy of any document held by the Registry of Deeds under the Registration of Deeds Acts and for which a fee has not otherwise been provided for in this Order (including the search for such document and certificate of the office on the copy)	£5·50
(f) For every uncertified copy of a memorial, affidavit, copy document, abstract, page or document referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) (excluding the search for such memorial, affidavit, copy document, abstract, page or document)	£1·50
Entry of Satisfaction of Mortgage or Charge 6.—(a) Entry of satisfaction of mortgage	£4·00
(b) Entry of satisfaction of order charging land	£4·00
Vacation of Registration by Court Order or Certificate 7.  Entry of vacation of registration by judgment, decree or order of a Court, Court certificate or other certificate	£4·00
Vacation of Registration of Bankrupt’s Rights of Occupation 8.  Entry of vacation of registration of a charge in respect of a bankrupt’s rights of occupation where the vacate is made pursuant to regulation 8(5)(c) of the Insolvency (Registration of Deeds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991(6)	£4·00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order which revokes the Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995, specifies the fees to be taken in respect of documents lodged for Registration in the Registry of Deeds and for other work carried out by that registry.

The main changes effected by the Order are:—

(a) A fee of £4·00 has been provided for the entry of the vacation of a registration by the judgment, decree or order of a Court, Court Certificate or other certificate; and

(b) A fee of £4·00 has been provided for the entry of the vacation of a bankrupt’s rights of occupation where such rights have been vacated as a result of an affidavit made by the bankrupt under regulation 8(5)(c) of the Insolvency (Registration of Deeds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991.

(1)

1970 c. 25 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 5(b) and Schedule 1, Part II

(3)

S.R. 1989 No. 271

(4)

S.I. 1981/226 (N.I. 6)

(5)

S.R. 1995 No. 317

(6)

S.R. 1991 No. 382