Date of the judgment: 08.04.2021.
Official publication: 12.04.2021.
On Compliance of Para 13 of the Cabinet Regulation of 27 October 2009 No. 1250 “Regulation Regarding State Fee for Registering Ownership Rights and Pledge Rights in the Land Register” with Article 91, Article 105 and Article 110 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia
The Constitutional Court ruled:
to recognise paragraph 13 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 1250 of 27 October 2009 “Regulation regarding state fee for registering ownership rights and pledge rights in the Land Register”, insofar as it applies to the estate-leaver’s surviving same-sex partner who lived with the estate-leaver as a family, as being incompatible with the first sentence of Article 110 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia and void as from 1 June 2022.
Press-releases
- A provision regulating state fee, applied to the estate-leaver’s same-sex partner who lived with the estate-leaver as a family, is incompatible with the Constitution
- A case initiated with respect to a norm that determines the amount of the state fee for the partner of the estate-leaver for registering the ownership rights in the Land Register