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Statutory Instruments
LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
14th December 1987
Coming into force
1st April 1988
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:-
1.-(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987(2), 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.
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 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.
Dated 8th December 1987
We concur,
Peter Lloyd
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
Dated 14th December 1987
| (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 |
| (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.
S.I. 1987/360.
