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The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1997

S.I. 1997/1534 · Made 17 June 1997

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LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 17th June 1997

Coming into force 1st September 1997

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132(1) 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 Land Registries
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule
  5. ICONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES
  6. IINEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES
  7. Explanatory note

1Title, commencement and interpretation

(1)

This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995f1, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.

(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.

2District Land Registries

(1)

The name of the Durham District Land Registry shall be changed to the Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry.

(2)

Subject to the change of name effected by paragraph (1), there shall continue to be district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.

(3)

There shall be new district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule.

(4)

The district of each district land registry comprises the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of the Schedule.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 16th June 1997

We concur,

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissionersof Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 17th June 1997

ICONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)(2)
District Land RegistryAdministrative Areas
The Birkenhead District Land Registry

Cheshire

Hammersmith and Fulham

Kensington and Chelsea

Merseyside

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

The Coventry District Land RegistryWest Midlands
The Croydon District Land Registry

Bexley

Bromley

Croydon

Sutton

The Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry(formerly the Durham District Land Registry)

Darlington

Durham

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Northumberland

Redcar and Cleveland

Stockton-on-Tees

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 theMiddle 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

Leicester

Leicestershire

Milton Keynes

Rutland

The Lytham District Land Registry

Greater Manchester

Lancashire

The Nottingham District Land Registry

Derby

Derbyshire

Nottinghamshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

The Peterborough District Land Registry

Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Essex

Luton

Northamptonshire

The Plymouth District Land Registry

Bath and North East Somerset

Cornwall

Devon

Isles of Scilly

North Somerset

Somerset

The Portsmouth District Land Registry

Brighton and Hove

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

Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe

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 RegistryKent
The Weymouth District Land Registry

Bournemouth

Dorset

Hampshire

Poole

Portsmouth

Southampton

Swindon

Wiltshire

The York District Land Registry

North Yorkshire

York

IINEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)(2)
District Land RegistryAdministrative Areas
The Durham (Boldon House) District Land Registry

Cumbria

Surrey

The District Land Registry for Wales Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol CymruAll counties and county boroughs in Wales

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, on 1st September 1997, supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995 and:

(1)

changes the name of the Durham District Land Registry to the Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry;

(2)

creates two new district land registries called the Durham (Boldon House) District Land Registry and the District Land Registry for Wales/Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru respectively;

(3)

transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Cumbria and Surrey from the Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry (formerly the Durham District Land Registry) to the new Durham (Boldon House) District Land Registry;

(4)

transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in all counties and county boroughs in Wales from the Swansea District Land Registry/Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe to the new District Land Registry for Wales/Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru;

(5)

takes account of the changes made to administrative areas in England by:

  • The Buckinghamshire (Borough of Milton Keynes) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1769);

  • The East Sussex (Boroughs of Brighton and Hove) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1770);

  • The Dorset (Boroughs of Poole and Bournemouth) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1771);

  • The Durham (Borough of Darlington) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1772);

  • The Derbyshire (City of Derby) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1773);

  • The Wiltshire (Borough of Thamesdown) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1774);

  • The Hampshire (Cities of Portsmouth and Southampton) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1775);

  • The Bedfordshire (Borough of Luton) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1776);

  • The Staffordshire (City of Stoke-on-Trent) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1779);

  • The Leicestershire (City of Leicester and District of Rutland) (Structural Change) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/507);

  • a resolution of the Swindon Borough Council (formerly the Thamesdown Borough Council) made on 24 April 1997 under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) and article 3 of The Wiltshire (Borough of Thamesdown) (Structural Change) Order 1995 changing the name of the new county of Thamesdown to the county of Swindon,

but otherwise leaves unaltered the districts of the Birkenhead, Coventry, Croydon, Gloucester, Harrow on the Hill, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Lytham St. Annes, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Stevenage, Telford, Tunbridge Wells, Weymouth and York District Land Registries.