The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No.2634

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991

Made

20th November 1991

Coming into force

16th March 1992

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132 of the Land Registration Act 1925(1), and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

Title, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989(2), may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 16th March 1992.

(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 Registries

2.—(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 date specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be a new district registry bearing the name and at the place 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—

• North Yorkshire shall not form part of the district of the York District Land Registry before 5th October 1992 and shall not form part of the district of the Durham District Land Registry on or after that date;

and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 13th November 1991

We concur,

Gregory Knight

Nicholas Baker

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 20th November 1991

SCHEDULE

PART I CONTINUING DISTRICT REGISTRIES

(1)	(2)	(3)
District Registry	Counties (including the Isles of Scilly)	London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead	Cheshire Merseyside Staffordshire	Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea
The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry	West Midlands
The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon		Bexley Bromley Croydon Sutton
The Durham District Land Registry at Durham	Cleveland Cumbria Durham Northumberland Surrey Tyne and Wear North Yorkshire (only before 5th October 1992)
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester	Berkshire Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Warwickshire Wiltshire
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill		Barnet Brent The City of London The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple Camden City of Westminster Harrow Islington
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull	Humberside Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk
The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester	Buckinghamshire Leicestershire
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes	Greater Manchester Lancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire
The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough	Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Northamptonshire
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth	Avon Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly Somerset
The Portsmouth District Land Registry at Portsmouth	East Sussex Isle of Wight
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage	Hertfordshire	Barking and Dagenham Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea	Hereford and Worcester All counties in Wales	Ealing Hillingdon Hounslow
The Telford District Land Registry at Telford	Shropshire	Greenwich Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Richmond upon Thames Southwark Wandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells	Kent
The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth	Dorset Hampshire West Sussex

PART II NEW DISTRICT REGISTRY

(1)	(2)	(3)
District Registry	Counties (including the Isles of Scilly)	London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The York District Land Registry at York on and after 5th October 1992	North Yorkshire

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989, constitutes a new district land registry at York. The Order also transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:—

(a) in the county of the Isle of Wight from the Weymouth to the Portsmouth District Land Registry as from 16th March 1992;

(b) in the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea from the Harrow to the Birkenhead District Land Registry as from the 16th March 1992;

(c) in the county of North Yorkshire from the Durham to the York District Land Registry as from 5th October 1992.

The areas of the remaining district registries at Coventry, Croydon, Gloucester, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Lytham, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Stevenage, Swansea, Telford, and Tunbridge Wells are unchanged.

(1)

1925 c. 21.

(2)

S.I. 1989/1902.