1998 No. 2974

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1998

Made1st December 1998

Coming into force1st March 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132(1) 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 19982, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st March 1999.

(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 Registries2.

(1)

The name of the Birkenhead District Land Registry shall be changed to the Birkenhead (Old Market) District Land Registry.

(2)

Subject to the change of name effected by paragraph (1), there shall continue to be district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.

(3)

There shall be two new district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule.

(4)

The district of each district land registry shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of the Schedule.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G. W. Hoon

Minister of State,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 23rd November 1998

We concur,

Jim Dowd

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 1st December 1998

SCHEDULE

PART ICONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)	(2)
District Land Registry	Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Old Market)	Merseyside Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent
Coventry	West Midlands
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
Leicester	Buckinghamshire Leicester Leicestershire Milton Keynes Rutland
Lytham	Greater Manchester
Nottingham (East)	Nottingham Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire
Nottingham (West)	Derby Derbyshire West Yorkshire
Peterborough	Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Luton Northamptonshire Peterborough Southend-on-Sea Thurrock
Plymouth	Bath and North East Somerset Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly North Somerset Plymouth Somerset Torbay
Portsmouth	Brighton and Hove East Sussex Isle of Wight Portsmouth West Sussex
Stevenage	Barking and Dagenham Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Hertfordshire Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest
Swansea Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe	Barnet Ealing Hillingdon Hounslow Worcestershire
Telford	Greenwich Herefordshire Lambeth Lewisham Richmond upon Thames Shropshire Southwark Wandsworth Wrekin
Tunbridge Wells	Kent Medway Towns
District Land Registry for Wales Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru	All counties and county Boroughs in Wales
Weymouth	Bournemouth Dorset Hampshire Poole Southampton Swindon Wiltshire
York	East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire York

PART IINEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)	(2)
Birkenhead (Rosebrae)	Cheshire Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Warrington
District Land Registry for Lancashire	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Lancashire

(1)

(2)

District Land Registry

Administrative Areas

Birkenhead (Rosebrae)

Cheshire

Halton

Hammersmith and Fulham

Kensington and Chelsea

Warrington

District Land Registry for Lancashire

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Lancashire

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, on 1st March 1999, supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1998 and:

(1)

changes the name of the Birkenhead District Land Registry to the Birkenhead (Old Market) District Land Registry;

(2)

creates two new district land registries called the Birkenhead (Rosebrae) District Land Registry and the District Land Registry for Lancashire;

(3)

transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington, and the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea from the Birkenhead (Old Market) District Land Registry (formerly the Birkenhead District Land Registry) to the new Birkenhead (Rosebrae) District Land Registry;

(4)

transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames from the Telford District Land Registry to the Croydon District Land Registry;

(5)

transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire from the Lytham District Land Registry to the new District Land Registry for Lancashire;

(6)

otherwise leaves unaltered the districts of the following District Land Registries:

Coventry

Durham (Boldon House)

Durham (Southfield House)

Gloucester

Harrow

Kingston upon Hull

Leicester

Nottingham (East)

Nottingham (West)

Peterborough

Plymouth

Portsmouth

Stevenage

Swansea (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe)

Tunbridge Wells

Wales (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru)

Weymouth

York