# The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988, Note: 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1825/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1988/note
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