The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2040

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003

Made

2nd August 2003

Laid before Parliament

7th August 2003

Coming into force

13th October 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 100(3) of the Land Registration Act 2002(1), hereby makes the following Order—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 13th October 2003.

Applications to which this Order applies

2.—(1) This Order applies to any application to the registrar except an application delivered to the registrar—

(a) in accordance with a written arrangement as to delivery made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer, or

(b) under the provisions of any relevant notice given under Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Rules 2003(2).

(2) In this article “conveyancer” means—

(a) a solicitor, or

(b) a licensed conveyancer within the meaning of section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985(3), or

(c) a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.

Designation of the proper office

3.  The proper office for the receipt of an application to which this Order applies is any office of the land registry specified in column 1 of the Schedule which is opposite an administrative area shown in column 2 of the Schedule in which the land to which that application relates is wholly or partly situated.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lammy

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

2nd August 2003

Article 3

SCHEDULE

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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates particular offices of the land registry as the proper office for the receipt of specified descriptions of application under the Land Registration Act 2002 (2002 c. 9).

(1)

2002 c. 9.

(2)

S.I. 2003/1417.

(3)

1985 c. 51.