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Statutory Instruments
LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
1st December 1998
Coming into force
1st March 1999
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:
1.-(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1998(2), 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.
2.-(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
| (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 |
| (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
S.I. 1998/140.
