LegalizeThe Registration of Title Order 1988
Made: 23rd March 1988
Coming into force: 1st December 1988
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of March 1988 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 120(1) and (6) of the Land Registration Act 1925[^f00001] and sections 80(2) and 90 of the London Government Act 1963[^f00002], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, as follows:
1
This Order may be cited as the Registration of Title Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st December 1988.
2
- (1) In addition to the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to the Registration of Title Order 1987[^f00003] (being the areas in England and Wales in which registration of title to land is already compulsory on sale) registration of title shall be compulsory on sale on and after 1st December 1988,
- (a) in the districts of Aberconwy, Arfon, Carmarthen, Carrick, Ceredigion, Dinefwr, Dwyfor, East Cambridgeshire, East Staffordshire, Fenland, Hambleton, Kerrier, Meirionnydd, North Cornwall, Penwith, Preseli, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, South Pembrokeshire, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Torridge, and West Devon, and
- (b) in the administrative area of the Isles of Scilly.
- (2) Accordingly, on and after 1st December 1988, registration of title to land shall be compulsory on sale in the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order.
3
As from 1st December 1988 the Registration of Title Order 1987 shall cease to have effect.
SCHEDULE
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| County or Administrative area | Areas of compulsory registration |
| Avon | The whole county |
| Bedfordshire | The whole county |
| Berkshire | The whole county |
| Buckinghamshire | The whole county |
| Cambridgeshire | The whole county |
| Cheshire | The whole county |
| Cleveland | The whole county |
| Clwyd | The whole county |
| Cornwall | The whole county |
| Cumbria | The whole county |
| Derbyshire | The whole county |
| Devon | The whole county |
| Dorset | The districts of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, Poole, and Weymouth and Portland |
| Durham | The whole county |
| Dyfed | The whole county |
| East Sussex | The whole county |
| Essex | The districts of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock and Uttlesford |
| Gloucestershire | The whole county |
| Greater London | The whole administrative area |
| Greater Manchester | The whole county |
| Gwent | The whole county |
| Gwynedd | The whole county |
| Hampshire | The whole county |
| Hereford and Worcester | The districts of Bromsgrove, Hereford, Redditch and Worcester |
| Hertfordshire | The whole county |
| Humberside | The whole county |
| Isle of Wight | The whole county |
| Isles of Scilly | The whole administrative area |
| Kent | The whole county |
| Lancashire | The whole county |
| Leicestershire | The whole county |
| Lincolnshire | The district of Lincoln |
| Merseyside | The whole county |
| Mid Glamorgan | The whole county |
| Norfolk | The districts of Great Yarmouth and Norwich |
| Northamptonshire | The whole county |
| Northumberland | The districts of Blyth Valley, Castle Morpeth and Wansbeck |
| North Yorkshire | The whole county |
| Nottinghamshire | The whole county |
| Oxfordshire | The whole county |
| Powys | The whole county |
| Shropshire | The districts of Bridgnorth and The Wrekin |
| Somerset | The districts of Taunton Deane and West Somerset |
| South Glamorgan | The whole county |
| South Yorkshire | The whole county |
| Staffordshire | The whole county |
| Suffolk | The districts of Ipswich and Waveney |
| Surrey | The whole county |
| Tyne and Wear | The whole county |
| Warwickshire | The whole county |
| West Glamorgan | The whole county |
| West Midlands | The whole county |
| West Sussex | The whole county |
| West Yorkshire | The whole county |
| Wiltshire | The districts of Thamesdown and West Wiltshire |
Signed
G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the system of compulsory registration of title on sale of land to the districts mentioned in article 2(1)(a) with effect from 1st December 1988 and, on the same date, to the administrative area of the Isles of Scilly as stated in article 2(1)(b).
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1925 c. 21.
[^f00002]: 1963 c. 33.
[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/939.
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.