The Land Charges Fees (Amendment) Rules 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 286

LAND CHARGES

The Land Charges Fees (Amendment) Rules 1994

Made

8th February 1994

Coming into force

28th March 1994

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9(1), 10(2), 16(1) and 17(1) of the Land Charges Act 1972(1), with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:—

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Land Charges Fes (Amendment) Rules 1994 and shall come into force on 28th March 1994.

Interpretation

2.  In these Rules:

“the Fees Rules” means the Land Charges Fees Rules 1990(2);

“Schedule 1” means Schedule 1 to the Fees Rules.

Amendment to rule 1 of the Fees Rules

3.  In rule 1(2) of the Fees Rules there shall be substituted for the definition of “written application” the following definition:

• ““written application” in Schedule 1 does not include an application made by teleprinter or facsimile transmission.”.

Amendment to rule 4 of the Fees Rules

4.  In rule 4(2) of the Fees Rules there shall be substituted for the words “a written application” the words “an application”.

Amendment to paragraph 5 of Schedule 1

5.  Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 shall be amended by adding after the words “facsimile transmission” the words “or to the registrar’s computer system by means of the applicant’s remote terminal”.

Amendment to paragraph 6 of Schedule 1

6.  Paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 shall be amended by adding at the end of that paragraph underneath the equivalent provisions the following:

• “application made to the registrar’s computer system by means of the applicant’s remote terminal ... ... ... ... per name £2—”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 28th January 1994

We concur,

Andrew Mackay

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 8th February 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Land Charges Fees Rules 1990 (Fees Rules) by prescribing two new fees to cover applications made to the registrar’s computer system by means of the applicant’s remote terminal:—

(a) a fee of £1 for an office copy of an entry in the register (including any plan);

(b) a fee of £2 per name for an official search in the index (including the issue of a printed certificate of result).

These Rules also amend rule 4(2) of the Fees Rules (acceptance of a written application and debiting of fee to credit account in certain circumstances) to cover all applications.

(1)

1972 c. 61.

(2)

S. I.1990/327.