The Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1998

Made: 1st December 1998

Coming into force: 1st March 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 132(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925¹, 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 1998², may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st March 1999.

• (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

• (1) The name of the Birkenhead District Land Registry shall be changed to the Birkenhead (Old Market) 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 two 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 shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

PART I — CONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

PART II — NEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G. W. Hoon — Minister of State, — Lord Chancellor’s Department — Dated 23rd November 1998

We concur,

Jim Dowd — Bob Ainsworth — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 1st December 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, on 1st March 1999, supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1998 and:

• (1) changes the name of the Birkenhead District Land Registry to the Birkenhead (Old Market) District Land Registry;

• (2) creates two new district land registries called the Birkenhead (Rosebrae) District Land Registry and the District Land Registry for Lancashire;

• (3) transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington, and the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea from the Birkenhead (Old Market) District Land Registry (formerly the Birkenhead District Land Registry) to the new Birkenhead (Rosebrae) District Land Registry;

• (4) transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames from the Telford District Land Registry to the Croydon District Land Registry;

• (5) transfers responsibility for the registration of titles in Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire from the Lytham District Land Registry to the new District Land Registry for Lancashire;

• (6) otherwise leaves unaltered the districts of the following District Land Registries:

Coventry

Durham (Boldon House)

Durham (Southfield House)

Gloucester

Harrow

Kingston upon Hull

Leicester

Nottingham (East)

Nottingham (West)

Peterborough

Plymouth

Portsmouth

Stevenage

Swansea (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe)

Tunbridge Wells

Wales (Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru)

Weymouth

York

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