Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979

23 Fees

For section 25 of the [1868 c. 64.] Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 (power of Treasury to prepare amended tables of fees for registration), there shall be substituted the following section—

“25 Fees.

The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, may from time to time by order made by statutory instrument fix fees payable in respect of registration or recording in any register under the management and control of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland and in respect of the provision by the Keeper of searches, reports, certificates or other documents or copies of any document or of information from any such register; and the amount of the fees so fixed shall not be greater than is reasonably sufficient for defraying the expenses of the department of the Keeper, including the expenses of the improvement of the systems of such registration and recording.”.