Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 2974
LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
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 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 1998(2), 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.
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
SCHEDULE
PART ICONTINUING DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES
(1)
(2)
District Land Registry
Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Old Market)
Merseyside
Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent
Coventry
West Midlands
Croydon
Bexley
Bromley
Croydon
Kingston upon Thames
Merton
Sutton
Durham (Boldon House)
Cumbria
Surrey
Durham (Southfield House)
Darlington
Durham
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Northumberland
Redcar and Cleveland
Stockton-on-Tees
Tyne and Wear
Gloucester
Bracknell Forest
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Reading
Slough
South Gloucestershire
Warwickshire
West Berkshire
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wokingham
Harrow
Brent
Camden
City of Westminster
The City of London
Harrow
Islington
The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Kingston Upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire
Suffolk
Leicester
Buckinghamshire
Leicester
Leicestershire
Milton Keynes
Rutland
Lytham
Greater Manchester
Nottingham (East)
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
South Yorkshire
Nottingham (West)
Derby
Derbyshire
West Yorkshire
Peterborough
Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Luton
Northamptonshire
Peterborough
Southend-on-Sea
Thurrock
Plymouth
Bath and North East Somerset
Cornwall
Devon
Isles of Scilly
North Somerset
Plymouth
Somerset
Torbay
Portsmouth
Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
Isle of Wight
Portsmouth
West Sussex
Stevenage
Barking and Dagenham
Enfield
Hackney
Haringey
Havering
Hertfordshire
Newham
Redbridge
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Swansea
Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe
Barnet
Ealing
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Worcestershire
Telford
Greenwich
Herefordshire
Lambeth
Lewisham
Richmond upon Thames
Shropshire
Southwark
Wandsworth
Wrekin
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
Medway Towns
District Land Registry for Wales
Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru
All counties and county
Boroughs in Wales
Weymouth
Bournemouth
Dorset
Hampshire
Poole
Southampton
Swindon
Wiltshire
York
East Riding of Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
York
PART IINEW DISTRICT LAND REGISTRIES
(1)
(2)
District Land Registry
Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Rosebrae)
Cheshire
Halton
Hammersmith and Fulham
Kensington and Chelsea
Warrington
District Land Registry for Lancashire
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Lancashire
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
(1)
1925 c. 21.
(2)
S.I. 1998/140.
