# The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987 S.I. 1987/360 · made 25 February 1987 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; Made under: 1925 c. 21 (Section 132, Section 133) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1987/pdf/uksi_19870360_en.pdf ## Introductory text 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 1925 and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:— ## 1 Title, commencement and interpretation (1) This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987. (2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925; “application” means an application made or delivered under the Land Registration (Delivery of Applications) Rules 1986 or the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1986 and includes a notice or other instrument so made or delivered; “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) There shall be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 of the Schedule. (2) 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— (a) 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; (b) 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; (c) 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. (3) The district registrar appointed for each district shall have the powers and indemnity conferred by section 133 of the Act: Provided that— (a) 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 (b) all powers and duties of the district registrar shall be exercised under the general direction and authority of the Chief Land Registrar. ## 3 Delivery of applications at the proper office No application shall be duly delivered until it is delivered at the proper office, namely:— (a) where an application relates to land wholly within a district, the district registry for that district; (b) where an application relates to land in two or more districts, any one of the district registries for those districts. ## 4 Revocation The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984 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:— (a) in the county of Staffordshire from the Nottingham to the Birkenhead District Land Registry as from 1st June 1987; (b) in the county of Leicestershire from the Peterborough to the Nottingham District Land Registry as from 1st July 1987; (c) in the county of Essex from the Stevenage to the Peterborough District Land Registry as from 1st October 1987; (d) 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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/360 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1987 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.