# The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995 S.I. 1995/2962 · made 15 November 1995 This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991, alters the areas served by the Gloucester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth District Land Registries by transferring responsibility for the registration of titles:—in South Gloucestershire and Bristol from the Plymouth to the Gloucester District Land Registry;in Wiltshire from the Gloucester to the Weymouth District Land Registry;in West Sussex from the Weymouth to the Portsmouth District Land Registry. Made under: 1925 c. 21 (Section 132) ## Introductory text LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 15th November 1995 Coming into force 1st April 1996 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132(1) 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 1991, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996. (2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires: “district land registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Land Registration Act 1925; “the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order. ## 2 District Land Registries The districts of the Gloucester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth District Land Registries are altered so that the district of each of the district land registries specified in column 1 of the Schedule comprises the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 of the Schedule. ## Signature We concur, Mackay of Clashfern, C. Dated 6th of November 1995 Simon Burns David Willets Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury Dated 15th November 1995 ## DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES (1) (2) District Land Registry Administrative Areas The Birkenhead District Land Registry Cheshire Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Merseyside Staffordshire The Coventry District Land Registry West Midlands The Croydon District Land Registry Bexley Bromley Croydon Sutton The Durham District Land Registry Cumbria Durham Hartlepool Middlesbrough Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Tyne and Wear The Gloucester District Land Registry Berkshire Bristol Gloucestershire Oxfordshire South Gloucestershire Warwickshire The Harrow District Land Registry Barnet Brent Camden City of Westminster The City of London Harrow Islington The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull Lincolnshire Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Suffolk The Leicester District Land Registry Buckinghamshire Leicestershire The Lytham District Land Registry Greater Manchester Lancashire The Nottingham District Land Registry Derbyshire Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire The Peterborough District Land Registry Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Northamptonshire The Plymouth District Land Registry Bath and North East Somerset Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly North Somerset Somerset The Portsmouth District Land Registry East Sussex Isle of Wight West Sussex The Stevenage District Land Registry Barking and Dagenham Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Hertfordshire Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest The Swansea District Land Registry All counties and county boroughs in Wales Ealing Hereford and Worcester Hillingdon Hounslow The Telford District Land Registry Greenwich Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Richmond upon Thames Shropshire Southwark Wandsworth The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry Kent The Weymouth District Land Registry Dorset Hampshire Wiltshire The York District Land Registry North Yorkshire York ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991, alters the areas served by the Gloucester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Weymouth District Land Registries by transferring responsibility for the registration of titles:— (a) in South Gloucestershire and Bristol from the Plymouth to the Gloucester District Land Registry; (b) in Wiltshire from the Gloucester to the Weymouth District Land Registry; (c) in West Sussex from the Weymouth to the Portsmouth District Land Registry. The districts of the remaining district registries at Birkenhead, Coventry, Croydon, Durham, Harrow, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Lytham, Nottingham, Peterborough, Stevenage, Swansea, Telford, Tunbridge Wells and York are unaltered. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2962 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-district-registries-order-1995 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.