3 Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023

Paragraph 3 of the Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023 is about Exclusion of certain expenses. It provides as follows:

(1) The remuneration prescribed in scales 1 to 5 set out in the Schedule to this Order shall not, unless as may be agreed by the parties, include costs and disbursements associated with –

(a) stamps, auctioneer’s or valuer’s charges, travelling expenses, fees paid on searches, fees paid to government or its agencies on registrations, costs of extracts or certified true copies from any register, court filing costs or other
disbursements reasonably and properly paid;

(b) any extra work occasioned by changes occurring in the course of any business such as the death, insolvency or winding up of a party to the transaction;

(c) any application for first registration under any enactment relating to registration of any title to land or any other interest in land and associated
filing costs necessitated by a transaction for which a scale of fee is payable to
the legal practitioner; and

(d) any application for consent required under the Land Use Act but shall
include any engrossing charge and allowance for the time of the legal
practitioner and his support staff and copying and parchment and all other
similar disbursements.

(2) In this paragraph
“Fees paid on searches” means-
(a) charges levied by any registry for permitting searches to be made ;

(b) charges, if any, levied by any registry for providing an official search; and
(c) fees paid to a legal practitioner for making a search at a registry outside
the district in which the legal practitioner conducting the search carries on his practice.

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