The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3424

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 2001

Made

16th October 2001

Coming into force

2nd January 2002

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132(1) 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 2000(2), may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd January 2002.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:

“district land registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Land Registration Act 1925;

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order.

District Land Registries

2.  The district of each district land registry shall comprise on and after 2nd January 2002 the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 of the Schedule.

Signed by Authority of the Lord Chancellor

Michael Wills

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

31st July 2001

We concur,

Nick Ainger

Tony McNulty

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

16th October 2001

SCHEDULE

(1)	(2)
District Land Registry	Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Old Market)	Merseyside Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent
Birkenhead (Rosebrae)	Cheshire Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Warrington
Coventry	West Midlands Worcestershire
Croydon	Bexley Bromley Croydon Kingston upon Thames Merton Sutton
Durham (Boldon House)	Cumbria Surrey
Durham (Southfield House)	Darlington Durham Hartlepool Middlesbrough Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees Tyne and Wear
Gloucester	Bracknell Forest Bristol Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Reading Slough South Gloucestershire Warwickshire West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham
Harrow	Brent Camden City of Westminster The City of London Harrow Islington The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Kingston upon Hull	Kingston upon Hull Lincolnshire Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Suffolk
District Land Registry for Lancashire	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Lancashire
Leicester	Buckinghamshire Leicester Leicestershire Milton Keynes Northamptonshire Rutland
Lytham	Greater Manchester
Nottingham (East)	Nottingham Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire
Nottingham (West)	Derby Derbyshire West Yorkshire
Peterborough	Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Luton Peterborough Southend-on-Sea Thurrock
Plymouth	Bath and North East Somerset Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly North Somerset Plymouth Somerset: Sedgemoor Taunton Deane West Somerset Torbay
Portsmouth	Brighton and Hove East Sussex Hampshire: East Hampshire Havant Isle of Wight Portsmouth West Sussex
Stevenage	Barking and Dagenham Hackney Havering Hertfordshire Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest
Swansea Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe	Barnet Ealing Enfield Haringey Hillingdon Hounslow
Telford	Greenwich Herefordshire Lambeth Lewisham Richmond upon Thames Shropshire Southwark The Wrekin Wandsworth
Tunbridge Wells	Kent Medway
District Land Registry for Wales Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru	All counties and county Boroughs in Wales
Weymouth	Bournemouth Dorset Hampshire: Basingstoke & Deane Eastleigh Fareham Gosport Hart New Forest Rushmoor Test Valley Winchester Poole Somerset: Mendip South Somerset Southampton Swindon Wiltshire
York	East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire York

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

A.  This Order, on 2nd January 2002, supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 2000 and transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough from the Peterborough District Land Registry to the Leicester District Registry.

B.  This Order otherwise leaves unaltered the districts of the following District Land Registries:

Birkenhead (Old Market)	Nottingham (East)
Birkenhead (Rosebrae)	Nottingham (West)
Coventry	Plymouth
Croydon	Portsmouth
Durham (Boldon House)	Stevenage
Durham (Southfield House)	Swansea (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe)
Gloucester	Telford
Harrow	Tunbridge Wells
Kingston upon Hull	Wales (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru)
Lancashire	Weymouth
Lytham	York

(1)

1925 c. 21.

(2)

S.I. 2000/430.