The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987
S.I. 1987/360 · Made 25 February 1987
LAND REGISTRATION
Made 25th February 1987
Coming into force 1st June 1987
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 132 and 133 of the Land Registration Act 1925f1 and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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Contents
- 1Title, commencement and interpretation
- 2District Registries
- 3Delivery of applications at the proper office
- 4Revocation
- Signature
- Schedule DISTRICT REGISTRIES
- Explanatory note
1Title, commencement and interpretation
This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987.
In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
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“the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;
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“application” means an application made or delivered under the Land Registration (Delivery of Applications) Rules 1986f1 or the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1986f2 and includes a notice or other instrument so made or delivered;
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“district registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Act;
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“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order.
2District Registries
There shall be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 of the Schedule.
Each district registry shall be the proper office for the registration of titles to land and for the delivery of any application relating to land in its district, which shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule: Provided that—
the county of Leicestershire shall not form part of the district of the Nottingham District Land Registry before 1st July 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Peterborough District Land Registry on or after that date;
the county of Essex shall not form part of the district of the Peterborough District Land Registry before 1st October 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Stevenage District Land Registry on or after that date;
the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow shall not form part of the district of the Swansea District Land Registry before 1st October 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Harrow District Land Registry on or after that date; and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.
The district registrar appointed for each district shall have the powers and indemnity conferred by section 133 of the Act: Provided that—
nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as giving a district registrar any powers or duties which are exercisable only by the Chief Land Registrar; and
all powers and duties of the district registrar shall be exercised under the general direction and authority of the Chief Land Registrar.
3Delivery of applications at the proper office
No application shall be duly delivered until it is delivered at the proper office, namely:—
where an application relates to land wholly within a district, the district registry for that district;
where an application relates to land in two or more districts, any one of the district registries for those districts.
4Revocation
The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984f1 is hereby revoked.
Signature
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.
Dated 12th February 1987
We concur
Peter Lloyd
Michael Neubert
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 25th February 1987
DISTRICT REGISTRIES
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| District Registry | Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) | 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 | ||
| Greenwich | ||
| Kingston upon Thames | ||
| Lambeth | ||
| Lewisham | ||
| Merton | ||
| Richmond upon Thames | ||
| Southwark | ||
| Sutton | ||
| Wandsworth | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| — | ||
| Hillingdon | ||
| Hounslow (only before 1st October 1987) | ||
| The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes | Greater Manchester | |
| Lancashire | ||
| The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham | Derbyshire | |
| Nottinghamshire | ||
| South Yorkshire | ||
| West Yorkshire | ||
| — | ||
| Leicestershire (on and after 1st July 1987) | ||
| The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough | Bedfordshire | |
| Cambridgeshire | ||
| Lincolnshire | ||
| Norfolk | ||
| Northamptonshire | ||
| Suffolk | ||
| — | ||
| Essex (on and after 1st October 1987) | ||
| Leicestershire (only before 1st July 1987) | ||
| The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth | Avon | |
| Cornwall | ||
| Devon | ||
| Isles of Scilly | ||
| Somerset | ||
| Wiltshire | ||
| The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage | Buckinghamshire Hertfordshire — Essex (only before 1st October 1987) | Barking and Dagenham Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest |
| The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea | Hereford and Worcester Shropshire All counties in Wales | Hillingdon Hounslow (on and after 1st October 1987) |
| 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 |
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order which replaces the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984 transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:—
in the county of Staffordshire from the Nottingham to the Birkenhead District Land Registry as from 1st June 1987;
in the county of Leicestershire from the Peterborough to the Nottingham District Land Registry as from 1st July 1987;
in the county of Essex from the Stevenage to the Peterborough District Land Registry as from 1st October 1987;
in the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow from the Harrow to the Swansea District Land Registry as from 1st October 1987;
The areas of the remaining district registries at Croydon, Durham, Gloucester, Lytham, Plymouth, Tunbridge Wells and Weymouth are unchanged.
The Order continues the requirement that applications for registration shall be delivered at the appropriate district registry, as defined in the Order.