PART 1
General

Citation, commencement and interpretation
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This Order may be cited as the Land Registration Fee Order 2021 and shall come into force on 31st January 2022.
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In this Order—
- “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 2002,
- “CLRA” means the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 ,
- “charge” includes a sub-charge,
- “common parts” has the same meaning as in section 25 of the CLRA,
- “a commonhold” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the CLRA,
- “commonhold association” has the same meaning as in section 34 of the CLRA,
- “commonhold community statement” has the same meaning as in section 31 of the CLRA,
- “commonhold land” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the CLRA,
- “commonhold unit” has the same meaning as in section 11 of the CLRA,
- “developer” has the same meaning as in section 58 of the CLRA,
- “electronic means” means electronically in accordance with a notice given under Schedule 2 to the rules,
- “large scale application” has the same meaning as in article 6(1)(b),
- “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,
- “permitted means” means permitted under the rules,
- “profit” means a profit a prendre in gross,
- “the rules” means the Land Registration Rules 2003 and a rule referred to by number means the rule so numbered in the rules,
- “Scale 1” means Scale 1 in Schedule 1,
- “Scale 2” means Scale 2 in Schedule 2,
- “scale fee” means a fee payable in accordance with a scale set out in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2,
- “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,
- “share”, in relation to land, means an interest in that land under a trust of land,
- “surrender” includes a surrender not made by deed,
- “voluntary application” means an application for first registration (other than for the registration of title to a rentcharge, a franchise, a profit or mines and minerals held apart from the surface) which is not made wholly or in part pursuant to section 4 of the Act (when title must be registered).
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Expressions used in this Order have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the rules.
2002 c. 15.
S.I. 2003/1417; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/1766, 2005/1982, 2008/1750, 2008/1919, 2009/1996, 2011/1410, 2018/70 and 2020/425.