Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 2093 (S. 173)

The Fees in the Registers of Scotland Order 1991

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1991 No. 2093 (S. 173)

REGISTERS AND RECORDS, SCOTLAND

The Fees in the Registers of Scotland Order 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25 of the Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868(^[1]) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Fees in the Registers of Scotland Order 1991 and shall come into force on 16th October 1991.

Interpretation
    2.    In the Schedule to this Order-
 (a) "the Act" means the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979(^[2]);
 (b) "dealing" and "Certificate of Title" shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as they have in the Land Registration (Scotland) Rules 1980(^[3]);
 (c) in Parts I, II and III, "fixed fee" means a fee equivalent to the lowest fee specified in Table A in Part XI of the Schedule to this Order;
 (d) any expression which is also used in the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as it has in the Act; and
 (e) any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in Schedule A to the Land Registration (Scotland) Rules 1980.

Fees
    3.    The fees payable in respect of the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order, being matters relating to registration or recording in the registers under the management and control of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland and to the provision by the Keeper of searches, reports, certificates or other documents or copies of any document or of information from any such register, shall be the fees specified in relation to those matters in that Schedule.

Revocations
    4.    The Fees in the Department of the Registers of Scotland Order 1981(^[4]) and the Fees in the Department of the Registers of Scotland (Amendment) Order 1990(^[5]) are hereby revoked.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh

31st August 1991
We Consent

Sidney Chapman

Irvine Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

10th September 1991

[1] 1868 c. 64; section 25 was substituted by section 23 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33). back

[2] 1979 c. 33. back

[3] S.I. 1980/1413, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order. back

[4] S.I. 1981/42. back

[5] S.I. 1990/1256. back

Explanatory Note