# The Land Registration (District Registries) (No.2) Order 1987 S.I. 1987/2213 · made 14 December 1987 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:—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;in the county of Shropshire from the Swansea to the Telford District Land Registry as from 1st April 1988;in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk from the Peterborough to the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry as from 1st July 1988;in the county of West Midlands from the Gloucester to the Coventry District Land Registry as from 1st October 1988;in the county of Wiltshire from the Plymouth to the Gloucester District Land Registry as from 1 November 1988. Made under: 1925 c. 21 (Section 132) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-no2-order-1987/pdf/uksi_19872213_en.pdf ## Introductory text 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 and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:— ## 1 Title, commencement and interpretation (1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987, 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 District Registries (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. ## Signature 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 ## I continuing district registries (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 ## II new district registries (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 ## Explanatory note (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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2213 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-no2-order-1987 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.