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Displaying 186 - 190 of 782Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001.
In a relevant lease (i.e. in a lease of land granted before 1 September 1974 for a period of not less than one hundred and seventy-five years), any provision which stipulates for payment of a casualty is void; and, accordingly, any such payment which would, but for this subsection, have fallen due on or after the relevant day shall not be exigible. "Casualty" means any duplicand or other periodical or casual payment stipulated in a relevant lease to be payable by the tenant to the landlord in addition to the rent.
Land Registration Fees Order 1999 (No. 2254 of 1999).
This Order makes changes to rules respecting land registration fees. Article 2 makes provision for the calculation of scale fees for application for first registration of title to land. Such fee is reduced by 25 percent where the application is voluntary. An application to register a charge that does not accompany but is lodged before completion of an application for first registration of land where the chargor will become registered as the proprietor of the land is no longer exempt from payment of a fee where the application for first registration is made voluntarily (art.
Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 (S.I. 419 of 1995).
This Order consolidates with amendments the procedural provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988 and subsequent amending instruments. A separate Order, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/418), consolidates with amendments the remaining provisions which deal with permitted development.
Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 1434 (W. 147) of 2004).
The amendments made by this Order to article 23 of the 1995 Order (procedure for commencing an appeal) give to the National Assembly for Wales an express discretion to treat notice of appeal as not having been given within the relevant time limit if the documents which are required to be served together with the necessary form are not provided within that time limit (art. 4).
Public Rights of Way (Combined Orders) (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 442 of 2008).
These Regulations apply section 53A of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to Orders regarding footpaths, bridleways and restricted byways listed in regulation 3. Those Orders are made by local authorities for the purpose of creating, stopping up or diverting public rights of way, and pursuant of section 53A.
Implements: Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Chapter 69). (1981-10-30)
Amended by: Public Rights of Way (Combined Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 2127 of 2010). (2010-08-24)