1Prepayment of recording and registration fees

1

No writ shall be accepted for recording in the Register of Sasines unless payment of the fee payable in that respect under section 25 of the [1868 c. 64.] Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 has been tendered.

2

Accordingly, in section 6 of that Act (procedure where writs sent by post for recording in Register of Sasines) the words from “intimation” to “effect”, where secondly occurring, are repealed.

3

In section 4(2) of the [1979 c. 33.] Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (circumstances where applications for registration are not to be accepted) after paragraph (d) there shall be added the following paragraph—

e

payment of the fee payable in respect of such registration under section 25 of the Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 has not been tendered.