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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1987, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) (No.2) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;
 “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.
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(1) 
(a) There shall continue to be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.
(b) On and after the dates specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be new district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in that column.
(2) Each district registry shall be the proper office for the purposes of the registration of titles to land wholly or partly in its district, which shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in columns 2 and 3 in both Parts of the Schedule:Provided that—
 the county of Wiltshire shall not form part of the district of the Gloucester District Land Registry before 1st November 1988 and shall not form part of the district of the Plymouth District Land Registry on or after that date;and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 8th December 1987We concur,
Peter Lloyd
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 14th December 1987
SCHEDULE
PART I


(1)
District Registry
(2)
Counties (including the Isles of Scilly)
(3)
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
  Kingston upon Thames
  Merton
  Richmond upon Thames
  Sutton
The Durham District Land Registry at Durham Cleveland
 Cumbria
 Durham
 Humberside
 Northumberland
 North Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester Berkshire
 Gloucestershire
 Oxfordshire
 Warwickshire
 West Midlands (only before 1st October 1988)
 Wiltshire (on and after 1st November 1988)
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill The 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
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes Greater Manchester
 Lancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham Derbyshire
 Leicestershire
 Nottinghamshire
 South Yorkshire
 West Yorkshire
The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough Bedfordshire
 Cambridgeshire
 Essex
 Northamptonshire
 Lincolnshire
 Norfolk
 Suffolk (only before 1st July 1988)
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth Avon
 Cornwall
 Devon
 Isles of Scilly
 Somerset
Wiltshire (only before 1st November 1988)
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage Buckinghamshire
 Hertfordshire
  Barking and Dagenham
  Enfield
  Hackney
  Haringey
  Havering
  Newham
  Redbridge
  Tower Hamlets
  Waltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea Hereford and Worcester Hillingdon
 All counties in Wales Hounslow
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells East Sussex
 Kent
 Surrey
The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth Dorset
 Hampshire
 Isle of Wight
 West Sussex
PART II

(1) District Registry (2) Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) (3) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Telford District Land Registry at Telford on and after 1st April 1988 Shropshire Greenwich
  Lambeth
  Lewisham
  Southwark
  Wandsworth
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull on and after 1st July 1988 Lincolnshire
 Norfolk
 Suffolk
The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry on and after 1st October 1988 West Midlands