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The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988

S.I. 1988/1825 · Made 19 October 1988

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LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 19th October 1988

Coming into force 1st April 1989

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132 of the Land Registration Act 1925f1, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1925 c. 21.

Contents

  1. 1Title, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2District Registries
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule
  5. ICONTINUING DISTRICT REGISTRIES
  6. IINEW DISTRICT REGISTRY
  7. Explanatory note

1Title, commencement and interpretation

(1)

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1987f1, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

(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.

2District 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 date specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be a new district registry bearing the name and at the place 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—

(a)

the county of Surrey shall not form part of the district of the Durham District Land Registry before 1st May 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry on or after that date;

(b)

the London Borough of Ealing shall not form part of the district of the Swansea District Land Registry before 1st June 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Harrow District Land Registry on or after that date;

(c)

the county of Humberside shall not form part of the district of the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry before 1st October 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Durham District Land Registry on or after that date;

and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.

Signature

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 28th September 1988

We concur,

David Lightbown

Anthony Durrant

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 19th October 1988

ICONTINUING DISTRICT REGISTRIES

(1)(2)(3)
District RegistryCounties (including the Isles of Scilly)London Boroughs (includingthe City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at BirkenheadCheshire
Merseyside
Staffordshire
The Coventry District Land Registry at CoventryWest Midlands
The Croydon District Land Registry at CroydonBexley
Bromley
Croydon
Sutton
The Durham District Land Registry at DurhamCleveland
Cumbria
Durham
Northumberland
North Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear
Humberside (only before 1st October 1989)
Surrey (on and after 1st May 1989)
The Gloucester District Land Registry at GloucesterBerkshire
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the HillThe City of London
The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Barnet
Brent
Camden
City of Westminster
Hammersmith and Fulham
Harrow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Ealing (only before 1st June 1989)
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon HullLincolnshire
Norfolk
Suffolk
Humberside (on and after 1st October 1989)
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. AnnesGreater Manchester
Lancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at NottinghamDerbyshire
Leicestershire
Nottinghamshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
The Peterborough District Land Registry at PeterboroughBedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Northamptonshire
The Plymouth District Land Registry at PlymouthAvon
Cornwall
Devon
Isles of Scilly
Somerset
The Stevenage District Land Registry at StevenageHertfordshireBarking and Dagenham
Buckinghamshire (only before 1st December 1989)Enfield
Hackney
Haringey
Havering
Newham
Redbridge
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at SwanseaHereford and WorcesterHillingdon
All counties in WalesHounslow
Ealing (on and after 1st June 1989)
The Telford District Land Registry at TelfordShropshireGreenwich
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Wandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge WellsEast Sussex
Kent
Surrey (only before 1st May 1989)
The Weymouth District Land Registry at WeymouthDorset
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
West Sussex

IINEW DISTRICT REGISTRY

(1)(2)(3)
District RegistryCounties (including the Isles of Scilly)London Boroughs (includingthe City and the Temples)
The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester (on and after 1st December 1989)Buckinghamshire

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1987, constitutes a new district land registry at Leicester. The Order also transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:—

(a)

in the London Boroughs of Kingston upon Thames, Merton and Richmond upon Thames from the Croydon to the Telford District Land Registry as from 1st April 1989;

(b)

in the county of Surrey from the Tunbridge Wells to the Durham District Land Registry as from 1st May 1989;

(c)

in the London Borough of Ealing from the Harrow to the Swansea District Land Registry as from 1st June 1989;

(d)

in the county of Humberside from the Durham to the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry as from 1st October 1989;

(e)

in the county of Buckinghamshire from the Stevenage to the Leicester District Land Registry as from 1st December 1989.

The areas of the remaining district registries at Birkenhead, Coventry, Gloucester, Lytham, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth and Weymouth are unchanged.