The Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 601 (L.2)

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES

The Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) Regulations 1994

Made

7th March 1994

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 133(4) of the Supreme Court Act 1981(1), with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls and the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

2.  These Regulations provide for the fees to be taken on or in connection with the enrolment of any deed in the Central Office (Enrolment Department) of the Supreme Court.

3.  The fees set out in column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be taken in the circumstances described in column 1 of that Schedule.

4.  These Regulations do not apply to deeds filed in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s Department.

5.  In these Regulations the expression “deed” includes an assurance or other instrument or document.

6.  Where the enrolment of a deed poll (within the meaning of the Enrolment of Deeds (Change of Name) Regulations 1994(2)) is to be advertised in the London Gazette in accordance with those Regulations, the cost of the advertisement shall be borne by the person seeking to enrol the deed poll and shall be paid by him at the time when the deed poll is enrolled to the clerk in charge of the Filing and Record Department of the Central Office of the Supreme Court.

7.  The Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) Regulations 1922(3) and the Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1951(4) are hereby revoked except in respect of any fee due before the Regulations come into force.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 3rd March 1994

I concur,

T. H. Bingham, M.R.

Dated 3rd March 1994

We concur,

Irvine Patnick

Nicholas Baker

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 7th March 1994

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2 £ p
1. For enrolling any deed.	10.00
2. For making and examining a photographic or other copy of any enrolled deed whether or not issued as an office copy.	0.25
3. Searches by applicant in person.	1.00
Searches by staff on behalf of applicant.	5.00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the fees to be taken on or in connection with the enrolment of deeds in the Central Office of the Supreme Court. They also contain the provision governing the cost of advertising the enrolment of a deed poll which was formerly contained in the Enrolment of Deeds (Change of Name) Regulations 1983 (now superseded by the Enrolment of Deeds (Change of Name) Regulations 1994). The Regulations revoke the Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) Regulations 1922 and the Enrolment of Deeds (Fees) (Amendment) Regulation 1951.

Most of the fees contained in the revoked fees instruments have been omitted as obsolete. The differences, so far as it is practicable to show them, between the old fees (shown in decimal values) and the equivalent new fees are as follows:—

Item	New	Old
Fee 1 (enrolment of deeds)	£10	£1 (where enrolment required by enactment) £2 (other deeds)
Fee 2 (making and examining copies)	25 pence	Ranging between 7-20 pence (decimal equivalents)
Fee 3 (searches by applicant)	£1	10 pence (decimal equivalent).
(Searches by staff)	£5

(1)

1981 c. 54. The power was formerly conferred on the Master of the Rolls by virtue of section 218 of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5 c.49).

(2)

S.I. 1994/.

(3)

S.R. & O. 1922/210, as amended by S.I. 1951/1937.

(4)

S.I. 1951/1937.