The Land Registration Fee Order 2021

Article 10

SCHEDULE 4 EXEMPTIONS

No fee is payable for:

(1) an application for alteration of the register to reflect a change in the name, address or description of a registered proprietor or other person referred to in the register, or in the cautions register, or a change in the description of a property;

(2) giving effect in the register to a change of proprietor where the registered estate or the registered charge, as the case may be, has become vested without further assurance, other than on the death or bankruptcy of a proprietor, in some person by the operation of statute (other than the Act), statutory instrument or scheme taking effect under a statute or statutory instrument;

(3) an application to register the surrender of a registered leasehold estate where the surrender is consideration or part consideration for the grant of a new lease to the registered proprietor of substantially the same premises as were comprised in the surrendered lease and where a scale fee is payable for the registration of the new lease;

(4) an application to register a discharge of a registered charge;

(5) an application to enter a home rights notice, or to renew such a notice, or to renew a matrimonial home rights caution;

(6) an application for the alteration of the register to reflect the death of a proprietor;

(7) an application for the removal or cancellation of a unilateral notice, for the cancellation of a notice under rule 87 (other than in respect of an unregistered lease or unregistered rentcharge which has determined) or rule 87A, for the withdrawal or cancellation of a caution against first registration, for the withdrawal or cancellation of a caution against dealings, or for the withdrawal or cancellation of a restriction or inhibition;

(8) an application for the removal of the designation of a document as an exempt information document;

(9) a request to approve an estate layout plan or any draft document with or without a plan;

(10) a request for an order by the registrar (other than an order under section 41(2) of the Act);

(11) an application for deregistering a manor;

(12) a request for the entry in the register of a note of the dissolution of a corporation;

(13) an application to enter a restriction in Form A in Schedule 4 to the rules;

(14) an application for day list information on any one occasion by electronic means;

(15) a request for an entry in the register in respect of a notice of disclaimer given by a trustee in bankruptcy, a liquidator, the Treasury Solicitor (on behalf of the Crown), or the Solicitor to the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duchy of Cornwall.