Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1534

The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1997

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 1534

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1997

	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 1925[1], 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 1995[2], 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.

District Land Registries
    2. - (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.

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

SCHEDULEArticle 2

PART I
CONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)	(2)
District Land Registry	Administrative Areas
The Birkenhead District Land Registry	Cheshire Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Merseyside Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent
The Coventry District Land Registry	West 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 Registry	Kent
The Weymouth District Land Registry	Bournemouth Dorset Hampshire Poole Portsmouth Southampton Swindon Wiltshire
The York District Land Registry	North Yorkshire York

PART II
NEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES

(1)	(2)
District Land Registry	Administrative Areas
The Durham (Boldon House) District Land Registry	Cumbria Surrey
The District Land Registry for Wales Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru	All 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:

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.

Notes:

[1] 1925 c. 21.back

[2] S.I. 1995/2962.back

ISBN 0 11 064584 7

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