Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made: 27th June 1996

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Coming into operation: 8th August 1996

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(1) of the Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970[^f00001] and now vested in it[^f00002] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 8th August 1996.

Interpretation

2

In this Order—

• “Matrimonial Charges Index” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(2) of the Matrimonial Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989[^f00003];

• “order charging land” has the same meaning as in Article 46(1) of the Judgements Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00004].

Fees

3

The fees to be taken in the registry of deeds in respect of the matters set out in column 1 of the Schedule shall be those set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.

Revocation

4

The Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995[^f00005] is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1

Registration

1

• (a) Upon every memorial received for the registration of a document other than a document specified in paragraph 7 of this Schedule

Certificates of Registration

2

For every special certificate of registration

Common Search or Negative Search made by Office under a Requisition

3

By time taken to produce each finished search for each half-hour or part thereof

Search by Members of the Public

4

Search by every person each half-hour or part thereof

Copies made in Registry of Deeds

5

• (a) For every copy of a memorial or affidavit of judgement (including the search for such memorial or affidavit of judgement and certificate of the office on the copy)

Entry of Satisfaction of Mortgage or Charge

6

• (a) Entry of satisfaction of mortgage

Vacation of Registration by Court Order or Certificate

7

Entry of vacation of registration by judgment, decree or order of a Court, Court certificate or other certificate

Vacation of Registration of Bankrupt’s Rights of Occupation

8

Entry of vacation of registration of a charge in respect of a bankrupt’s rights of occupation where the vacate is made pursuant to regulation 8(5)(c) of the Insolvency (Registration of Deeds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991[^f00006]

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

J. MacQuarrie — Assistant Secretary — 27th June 1996.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order which revokes the Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995, specifies the fees to be taken in respect of documents lodged for Registration in the Registry of Deeds and for other work carried out by that registry.

The main changes effected by the Order are:—

• (a) A fee of £4·00 has been provided for the entry of the vacation of a registration by the judgment, decree or order of a Court, Court Certificate or other certificate; and

• (b) A fee of £4·00 has been provided for the entry of the vacation of a bankrupt’s rights of occupation where such rights have been vacated as a result of an affidavit made by the bankrupt under regulation 8(5)(c) of the Insolvency (Registration of Deeds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1970 c. 25 (N.I.)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 5(b) and Schedule 1, Part II

[^f00003]: S.R. 1989 No. 271

[^f00004]: S.I. 1981/226 (N.I. 6)

[^f00005]: S.R. 1995 No. 317

[^f00006]: S.R. 1991 No. 382