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The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003

S.I. 2003/2040 · Made 2 August 2003

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LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 2nd August 2003

Laid before Parliament 7th August 2003

Coming into force 13th October 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 100(3) of the Land Registration Act 2002f1, hereby makes the following Order—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2002 c. 9.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Applications to which this Order applies
  3. 3Designation of the proper office
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule Schedule
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 13th October 2003.

2Applications to which this Order applies

(1)

This Order applies to any application to the registrar except an application delivered to the registrar—

(a)

in accordance with a written arrangement as to delivery made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer, or

(b)

under the provisions of any relevant notice given under Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Rules 2003f1.

(2)

In this article “conveyancer” means—

(a)

a solicitor, or

(b)

a licensed conveyancer within the meaning of section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985f2, or

(c)

a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.

3Designation of the proper office

The proper office for the receipt of an application to which this Order applies is any office of the land registry specified in column 1 of the Schedule which is opposite an administrative area shown in column 2 of the Schedule in which the land to which that application relates is wholly or partly situated.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lammy

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

2nd August 2003

Column 1Column 2
Office of the land registryAdministrative Area
Land Registry, Birkenhead (Old Market) Office

Merseyside

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Land Registry, Birkenhead (Rosebrae) Office

Cheshire

Halton

Hammersmith and Fulham

Kensington and Chelsea

Warrington

Land Registry, Coventry Office

West Midlands

Worcestershire

Land Registry, Croydon Office

Bexley

Bromley

Croydon

Kingston upon Thames

Merton

Sutton

Land Registry, Durham (Boldon) Office

Cumbria

Surrey

Land Registry, Durham (Southfield) Office

Darlington

Durham

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Northumberland

Redcar and Cleveland

Stockton-on-Tees

Tyne and Wear

Land Registry, Gloucester Office

Bracknell Forest

Bristol

Gloucestershire

Oxfordshire

Reading

Slough

South Gloucestershire

Warwickshire

West Berkshire

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Land Registry, Harrow Office

Brent

Camden

City of Westminster

The City of London

Harrow

Islington

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple

Land Registry, Kingston Upon Hull Office

Kingston upon Hull

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

Suffolk

Land Registry, Lancashire

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Lancashire

Land Registry, Leicester Office

Buckinghamshire

Leicester

Leicestershire

Milton Keynes

Northamptonshire

Rutland

Land Registry, Lytham OfficeGreater Manchester
Land Registry, Nottingham (East) Office

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

South Yorkshire

Land Registry, Nottingham (West) Office

Derby

Derbyshire

West Yorkshire

Land Registry, Peterborough Office

Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Essex

Luton

Peterborough

Southend-on-Sea

Thurrock

Land Registry, Plymouth Office

Bath and North East Somerset

Cornwall

Devon

Isles of Scilly

North Somerset

Plymouth

Somerset:

  • Sedgemoor

  • Taunton Deane

  • West Somerset

Torbay

Land Registry, Portsmouth Office

Brighton and Hove

East Sussex

Hampshire:

  • East Hampshire

  • Havant

Isle of Wight

Portsmouth

West Sussex

Land Registry, Stevenage Office

Barking and Dagenham

Hackney

Havering

Hertfordshire

Newham

Redbridge

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

Land Registry, Swansea Office

Cofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa

Abertawe

Barnet

Ealing

Enfield

Harringey

Hillingdon

Hounslow

Land Registry, Telford Office

Greenwich

Herefordshire

Lambeth

Lewisham

Richmond upon Thames

Shropshire

Southwark

The Wrekin

Wandsworth

Land Registry, Tunbridge Wells Office

Kent

Medway

Land Registry, Wales Office

Cofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa Cymru

All counties and county boroughs in Wales
Land Registry, Weymouth Office

Bournemouth

Dorset

Hampshire:

  • Basingstoke & Deane

  • Eastleigh

  • Fareham

  • Gosport

  • Hart

  • New Forest

  • Rushmoor

  • Test Valley

  • Winchester

Poole

Somerset:

  • Mendip

  • South Somerset

Southampton

Swindon

Wiltshire

Land Registry, York Office

East Riding of Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

York

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates particular offices of the land registry as the proper office for the receipt of specified descriptions of application under the Land Registration Act 2002 (2002 c. 9).