Land Registry fees
Fees you need to pay the Land Registry for transactions including land registrations, filings and searching records at a land registration office.
All fees must be paid at the time of registration, recording or filing of the document referred to, or at the time the service is provided. If documents are combined or attached together, or if several instrument types are combined in one instrument or document, each instrument or document type is considered separate and the fee is payable for each.
The Land Registration Act and Registry Act don’t require a fee to register or record a document if a fee has already been paid to file, enter or register the same document under the other act.
| Activity | Fee |
|---|---|
| Registering or recording a document, including a plan | $100.00 |
| Registering or recording an exempt document | No cost |
| Registering, recording or filing a copy of any document referred to in an abstract that’s not exempt from the filing fee and hasn’t already been registered, recorded or filed as outlined in the Land Registration Act or Registry Act | $100.00 |
| Certified copy of a document that’s registered or recorded under the act, per certification (plus the fee per page) | $13.35 |
| Search records at Land Registry (per person, per half-day or any partial half-day) | $6.59 |
| Copy of a document or part of a document that’s registered or recorded under the act, or an extract from electronic data or images, that’s reproduced by a photocopier or printer and is 11 x 17 inches or smaller, per page | $1.24 |
| Copy of a document or part of a document that’s registered or recorded under the act, or an extract from electronic data or images, that’s reproduced by a photocopier or printer and is larger than 11 x 17 inches, but not larger than 24 x 36 inches, per page | $9.32 |
| Copy of a document or part of a document that’s registered or recorded under the act, or an extract from electronic data or images, that’s reproduced by a photocopier or printer and is larger than 24 x 36 inches, but not larger than 36 x 42 inches, per page | $13.39 |
| Copy of a document or part of a document that’s registered or recorded under the act, or an extract from electronic data or images, that’s reproduced by a photocopier or printer and is larger than 36 x 42 inches, per metre | $9.32 |
| Fee payment returned to Land Registry because of insufficient funds | $16.20 |
| Fee payment remains outstanding for 30 days after notice has been provided by a registrar (for a fee payment returned to Land Registry because of insufficient funds) | $16.20 |
Documents exempt from the document filing fee
The following documents are exempt from the document filing fee and may be filed free of charge:
- boundary retracement survey plan prepared by a surveyor authorized under the Nova Scotia Land Surveyors Act
- statutory declaration respecting judgments
- application form or cover page not registered or recorded in a roll or parcel register, including a change of address in Form 22
- Affidavit of Name Change when required by the Land Registration Act
- abstract
- Affidavit of Verification
- Owner’s Authorization to Submit Application for Registration
- Opinion of Title
- Certificate of Legal Effect
- Parcel Description Certification Application or amendment
- subdivision plan approved before 16 April 1987
The registrar may waive the fee for:
- recording an application for review when the owner successfully appeals the registrar’s refusal to rectify or revise a registration
- recording a request by an owner to correct an error in the registration, if the error was the responsibility of the registrar