1987 No. 2213

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (District Registries) (No.2) Order 1987

Made

Coming into force

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132 of the Land Registration Act 19251 and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

Title, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 19872, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) (No.2) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

2

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

  • the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;

  • “district registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Act;

  • “the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order.

District Registries2

1

a

There shall continue to be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.

b

On and after the dates specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be new district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in that column.

2

Each district registry shall be the proper office for the purposes of the registration of titles to land wholly or partly in its district, which shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in columns 2 and 3 in both Parts of the Schedule:

Provided that—

  • the county of Wiltshire shall not form part of the district of the Gloucester District Land Registry before 1st November 1988 and shall not form part of the district of the Plymouth District Land Registry on or after that date;

and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

We concur,

Peter LloydMark Lennox-BoydTwo of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

SCHEDULE

PART Icontinuing district registries

(1)

District Registry

(2)

Counties (including the Isles of Scilly)

(3)

London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)

The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead

Cheshire

Merseyside

Staffordshire

The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon

Bexley

Bromley

Croydon

Kingston upon Thames

Merton

Richmond upon Thames

Sutton

The Durham District Land Registry at Durham

Cleveland

Cumbria

Durham

Humberside

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Tyne and Wear

The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester

Berkshire

Gloucestershire

Oxfordshire

Warwickshire

West Midlands (only before 1st October 1988)

Wiltshire (on and after 1st November 1988)

The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill

The City of London

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple

Barnet

Brent

Camden

City of Westminster

Ealing

Hammersmith and Fulham

Harrow

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes

Greater Manchester

Lancashire

The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham

Derbyshire

Leicestershire

Nottinghamshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough

Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Essex

Northamptonshire

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Suffolk (only before 1st July 1988)

The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth

Avon

Cornwall

Devon

Isles of Scilly

Somerset

Wiltshire (only before 1st November 1988)

The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage

Buckinghamshire

Hertfordshire

Barking and Dagenham

Enfield

Hackney

Haringey

Havering

Newham

Redbridge

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea

Hereford and Worcester

Hillingdon

All counties in Wales

Hounslow

The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells

East Sussex

Kent

Surrey

The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth

Dorset

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

West Sussex

PART IInew district registries

(1) District Registry

(2) Counties (including the Isles of Scilly)

(3) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)

The Telford District Land Registry at Telford on and after 1st April 1988

Shropshire

Greenwich

Lambeth

Lewisham

Southwark

Wandsworth

The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull on and after 1st July 1988

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Suffolk

The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry on and after 1st October 1988

West Midlands

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987, constitutes new district land registries at Coventry, Kingston upon Hull and Telford. The Order also transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:—

a

in the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth from the Croydon to the Telford District Land Registry as from 1st April 1988;

b

in the county of Shropshire from the Swansea to the Telford District Land Registry as from 1st April 1988;

c

in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk from the Peterborough to the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry as from 1st July 1988;

d

in the county of West Midlands from the Gloucester to the Coventry District Land Registry as from 1st October 1988;

e

in the county of Wiltshire from the Plymouth to the Gloucester District Land Registry as from 1 November 1988.

The areas of the remaining district registries at Birkenhead, Durham, Harrow, Lytham, Nottingham, Stevenage, Tunbridge Wells and Weymouth are unchanged.

The Order makes no change in the requirement that applications for registration shall be delivered at the appropriate district registry, as defined in the Order.