LegalizeThe Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995
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[^f00001], and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:
Title, commencement and interpretation
1
- (1) This order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991[^f00002], 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.
District Land Registries
2
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.
SCHEDULE — 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 |
Signed
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
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.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1925 c. 21.
[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/2634.
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