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(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 or the Land Registration (Official Searches) Rules 1986 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.
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(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.
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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.
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The Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1984 is hereby revoked.
Hailsham of St. Marylebone,  C.
Dated 12th February 1987We concur
Peter Lloyd
Michael Neubert
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 25th February 1987
SCHEDULE


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
District Registry Counties (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 Durham Cleveland
 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 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
  —
  Hillingdon
  Hounslow (only before 1st October 1987)
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes Greater Manchester
 Lancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham Derbyshire
 Nottinghamshire
 South Yorkshire
 West Yorkshire
 —
 Leicestershire (on and after 1st July 1987)
The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough Bedfordshire
 Cambridgeshire
 Lincolnshire
 Norfolk
 Northamptonshire
 Suffolk
 —
 Essex (on and after 1st October 1987)
 Leicestershire (only before 1st July 1987)
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth Avon
 Cornwall
 Devon
 Isles of Scilly
 Somerset
 Wiltshire
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage BuckinghamshireHertfordshire—Essex (only before 1st October 1987) Barking and DagenhamEnfieldHackneyHaringeyHaveringNewhamRedbridgeTower HamletsWaltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea Hereford and WorcesterShropshireAll counties in Wales HillingdonHounslow (on and after 1st October 1987)
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