# The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988 S.I. 1988/1825 · made 19 October 1988 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:—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;in the county of Surrey from the Tunbridge Wells to the Durham District Land Registry as from 1st May 1989;in the London Borough of Ealing from the Harrow to the Swansea District Land Registry as from 1st June 1989;in the county of Humberside from the Durham to the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry as from 1st October 1989;in the county of Buckinghamshire from the Stevenage to the Leicester District Land Registry as from 1st December 1989. Made under: 1925 c. 21 (Section 132) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1988/pdf/uksi_19881825_en.pdf ## Introductory text 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 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) (No. 2) Order 1987, 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. ## 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 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 ## I CONTINUING DISTRICT REGISTRIES (1) (2) (3) District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (includingthe City and the Temples) The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead Cheshire Merseyside Staffordshire The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry West Midlands The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon Bexley Bromley Croydon Sutton The Durham District Land Registry at Durham Cleveland 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 Gloucester Berkshire Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Warwickshire Wiltshire 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 Hammersmith and Fulham Harrow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Ealing (only before 1st June 1989) The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk Humberside (on and after 1st October 1989) 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 The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth Avon Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly Somerset The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage Hertfordshire Barking and Dagenham Buckinghamshire (only before 1st December 1989) 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 Ealing (on and after 1st June 1989) The Telford District Land Registry at Telford Shropshire Greenwich Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Richmond upon Thames Southwark Wandsworth The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells East Sussex Kent Surrey (only before 1st May 1989) The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth Dorset Hampshire Isle of Wight West Sussex ## II NEW DISTRICT REGISTRY (1) (2) (3) District Registry Counties (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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1825 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1988 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.