The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987 No. 360


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Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 360

LAND REGISTRATION

The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987

Made

25th February 1987

Coming into force

1st June 1987

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 132 and 133 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 may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires-

"the Act" means the Land Registration Act 1925;

"application" means an application made or delivered under the Land Registration (Delivery of Applications) Rules 1986(2) or the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1986(3) and includes a notice or other instrument so made or delivered;

"district registry" means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Act;

"the Schedule" means the Schedule to this Order.

District Registries

2.-(1) There shall be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 of the Schedule.

(2) Each district registry shall be the proper office for the registration of titles to land and for the delivery of any application relating to land in its district, which shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule: Provided that-

(a)the county of Leicestershire shall not form part of the district of the Nottingham District Land Registry before 1st July 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Peterborough District Land Registry on or after that date;

(b)the county of Essex shall not form part of the district of the Peterborough District Land Registry before 1st October 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Stevenage District Land Registry on or after that date;

(c)the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow shall not form part of the district of the Swansea District Land Registry before 1st October 1987 and shall not form part of the district of the Harrow District Land Registry on or after that date; and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.

(3) The district registrar appointed for each district shall have the powers and indemnity conferred by section 133 of the Act: Provided that-

(a)nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as giving a district registrar any powers or duties which are exercisable only by the Chief Land Registrar; and

(b)all powers and duties of the district registrar shall be exercised under the general direction and authority of the Chief Land Registrar.

Delivery of applications at the proper office

3. No application shall be duly delivered until it is delivered at the proper office, namely:-

(a)where an application relates to land wholly within a district, the district registry for that district;

(b)where an application relates to land in two or more districts, any one of the district registries for those districts.

Revocation

4. The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984(4) is hereby revoked.

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.

Dated 12th February 1987

We concur

Peter Lloyd

Michael Neubert

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Dated 25th February 1987

SCHEDULEDISTRICT REGISTRIES

Column 1Column 2Column 3
District RegistryCounties (including the Isles of Scilly)London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead
Cheshire
Merseyside
Staffordshire
The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon
Bexley
Bromley
Croydon
Greenwich
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Wandsworth
The Durham District Land Registry at DurhamCleveland
Cumbria
Durham
Humberside
Northumberland
North Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester
Berkshire
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
West Midlands
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the HillThe City of London
The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Barnet
Brent
Camden
City of Westminster
Ealing
Hammersmith and Fulham
Harrow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
-
Hillingdon
Hounslow (only before 1st October 1987)
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. AnnesGreater Manchester
Lancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at NottinghamDerbyshire
Nottinghamshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
-
Leicestershire (on and after 1st July 1987)
The Peterborough District Land Registry at PeterboroughBedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Suffolk
-
Essex (on and after 1st October 1987)
Leicestershire (only before 1st July 1987)
The Plymouth District Land Registry at PlymouthAvon
Cornwall
Devon
Isles of Scilly
Somerset
Wiltshire
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage

Buckinghamshire

Hertfordshire

-

Essex (only before 1st October 1987)

Barking and Dagenham

Enfield

Hackney

Haringey

Havering

Newham

Redbridge

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea

Hereford and Worcester

Shropshire

All counties in Wales

Hillingdon

Hounslow (on and after 1st October 1987)

The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge WellsEast Sussex
Kent
Surrey
The Weymouth District Land Registry at WeymouthDorset
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
West Sussex

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order which replaces the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984 transfers responsibility for the registration of titles:-

(a)in the county of Staffordshire from the Nottingham to the Birkenhead District Land Registry as from 1st June 1987;

(b)in the county of Leicestershire from the Peterborough to the Nottingham District Land Registry as from 1st July 1987;

(c)in the county of Essex from the Stevenage to the Peterborough District Land Registry as from 1st October 1987;

(d)in the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow from the Harrow to the Swansea District Land Registry as from 1st October 1987;

The areas of the remaining district registries at Croydon, Durham, Gloucester, Lytham, Plymouth, Tunbridge Wells and Weymouth are unchanged.

The Order continues the requirement that applications for registration shall be delivered at the appropriate district registry, as defined in the Order.

(2)

S.I. 1986/1534.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1536.

(4)

S.I. 1984/1579.


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