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Fee Review
The Fees in the Registers of Scotland Amendment Order 2010
Commencement Date 10 January 2011
RoS will be charging new fees for our registration and information services from 10 January 2011. This follows a public consultation exercise that ran from June until September 2010. Scottish Ministers have approved the fees and signed the Amendment Order.
For more information about the background to the changes, transfer fees and standard securities, rejections and cancellations, changes to information fees, and other significant changes, please click on the links below.
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Pre-Registration
From 10 January 2011 a fee of £50 plus VAT will be charged for each written enquiry received in Registers of Scotland on or after that date. From that date no telephone enquiries will be accepted.
Our Contact Details remain the same:
Pre-Registration Enquiries
Registers of Scotland
Meadowbank House
153 London Road
EDINBURGH EH8 7AU
DX 550907 LP55 EDINBURGH 5
Email: pre-reg@ros.gov.uk
Fax 0131 479 3675
Phone 0845 607 0163 (for messages only)
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Registration
From 1 January 2010 to the end of November we have had 160,942 applications submitted for Registration, of these, 16,728 have been rejected.
The information contained within this section of the website is intended to assist our Customers when submitting their applications, thereby reducing the need for rejection.
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Rejections
The Fees in the Registers of Scotland Amendment Order 2010 introduces, with effect from 10 January 2011, a fee of £30 for the rejection of an application prior to being accepted for the Land Register of Scotland in terms of section 4 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 ("the 1979 Act").
Real Burdens
From 10 January 2011 applications for registration in the Land Register that are rejected by the Keeper will incur a fee of £30. From the same date written Pre-Registration enquiries will incur a fee of £50.
To help 'Get it Right' without incurring additional costs this section highlights six of the most common 'Real Burdens' issues that can result in rejected applications.
For more information please click on the following links:
Home | Real Burdens in Developments | Real Burdens and Section 53 | Dual Registration | Servitudes | Discharge, Variation and Extinction of Real Burdens | Former Superiority or Mixed Fee Interests
Direct Debit
Direct Debit information
Customer Services
RoS will be charging new fees for our registration and information services from 10 January 2011. The main points visitors to RoS' Customer Service Centres or users of our eServices will note relate to REGISTERS DIRECT ™ (RD), artl and Personal Presentments.
The standard Registers Direct search fee will be £3 plus VAT.
Charges will be introduced for RoS staff conducting searches via Registers Direct
The fee for a search request submitted by email, letter or fax is £8 plus VAT for each search of the registers in addition to a Registers Direct information fee of £3.00 plus VAT per relevant return.
The fee for a search in person at our customer service centres is £12.00 plus VAT for each search of the registers in addition to a Registers Direct information fee of £3.00 plus VAT per relevant return.
Please note that the £3 Registers Direct fee will not apply to a nil return on a Land Register or General Register of Sasines search.
No charge for nil returns on Registers Direct retained.
A charge of £15 will be introduced for Personal Presentments of applications at our Customer Service Centres.
The artl minimum fee increases from £20 to £50.
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Contacts
Useful contact information for the topics covered within the Getting it Right site.
Frequently Asked Questions
To make sure the transition to the new fee structure is as seamless as possible, we have produced a series of Frequently Asked Questions that will give guidance to questions you may have regarding your applications for registration.
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