# The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989 S.I. 1989/1902 · made 5 October 1989 This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988, constitutes a new district land registry at Portsmouth. The Order also transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:–in the county of Leicestershire from the Nottingham to the Leicester District Land Registry as from 1st February 1990;in the county of East Sussex from the Tunbridge Wells to the Portsmouth District Land Registry as from 1st October 1990. Made under: 1925 c. 21 (Section 132) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1989/pdf/uksi_19891902_en.pdf ## Introductory text LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 5th October 1989 Coming into force 1st February 1990 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) Order 1988, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st February 1990. (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 – the county of East Sussex shall not form part of the district of the Portsmouth District Land Registry before 1st October 1990 and shall not form part of the district of the Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry on or after that date; and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly. ## Signature We concur, Dated 27th September 1989 Mackay of Clashfern, C. Stephen Dorrell, Kenneth Carlisle, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury Dated 5th October 1989 ## I CONTINUING DISTRICT REGISTRIES (1) (2) (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 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 Surrey Tyne and Wear The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester Berkshire Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Warwickshire Wiltshire The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill Barnet Brent The City of London The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple Camden City of Westminster Hammersmith and Fulham Harrow Islington Kensington and Chelsea The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull Humberside Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester Buckinghamshire Leicestershire 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 The Peterborough Ditrict 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 Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea Hereford and Worcester Ealing All counties in Wales Hillingdon Hounslow 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 Kent East Sussex (only before 1st October 1990) 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 (including the City and the Temples) The Portsmouth District Land Registry at Portsmouth on and after 1st October 1990 East Sussex ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988, constitutes a new district land registry at Portsmouth. The Order also transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:– (a) in the county of Leicestershire from the Nottingham to the Leicester District Land Registry as from 1st February 1990; (b) in the county of East Sussex from the Tunbridge Wells to the Portsmouth District Land Registry as from 1st October 1990. The areas of the remaining district registries at Birkenhead, Coventry, Croydon, Durham, Gloucester, Harrow, Kingston upon Hull, Lytham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Stevenage, Swansea, Telford and Weymouth are unchanged. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1902 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1989 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.