The Land Registration Fee Order 2021

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 1226

Land Registration, England And Wales

The Land Registration Fee Order 2021

Made

1st November 2021

Laid before Parliament

2nd November 2021

Coming into force

31st January 2022

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 102 and 128(1) of the Land Registration Act 2002(1).

In accordance with section 102 of that Act, the Secretary of State has received the advice and assistance of the Rule Committee, appointed under section 127(2) of that Act.

Also in accordance with section 102 of that Act, the Treasury has consented to the making of this Order.

(1)

2002 c. 9. The functions of the Lord Chancellor under the Land Registration Act 2002 (with three exclusions) were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 3(1) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2436). One of the transferred functions was the making of fee orders under sections 102 and 128(1). Section 102 was amended by paragraph 4(1) and (2)(h), and section 128(1) was amended by paragraph 4(1) and (3), of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Order.

(2)

Section 127 was amended by paragraphs 301 and 302 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), paragraph 4(1) and (2)(k) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011 and section 36 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).