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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1987, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.
(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 date specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be a new district registry bearing the name and at the place 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—
(a) the county of Surrey shall not form part of the district of the Durham District Land Registry before 1st May 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry on or after that date;
(b) the London Borough of Ealing shall not form part of the district of the Swansea District Land Registry before 1st June 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Harrow District Land Registry on or after that date;
(c) the county of Humberside shall not form part of the district of the Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry before 1st October 1989 and shall not form part of the district of the Durham District Land Registry on or after that date;
and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.
Mackay of Clashfern,C.
Dated 28th September 1988We concur,
David Lightbown
Anthony Durrant
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 19th October 1988
SCHEDULE
PART I

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (includingthe City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead Cheshire 
Merseyside
Staffordshire
The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry West Midlands 
The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon  Bexley
Bromley
Croydon
Sutton
The Durham District Land Registry at Durham Cleveland 
Cumbria
Durham
Northumberland
North Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear
Humberside (only before 1st October 1989)
Surrey (on and after 1st May 1989)
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester Berkshire 
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
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
Hammersmith and Fulham
Harrow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Ealing (only before 1st June 1989)
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull Lincolnshire 
Norfolk
Suffolk
Humberside (on and after 1st October 1989)
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
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth Avon 
Cornwall
Devon
Isles of Scilly
Somerset
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage Hertfordshire Barking and Dagenham
Buckinghamshire (only before 1st December 1989) 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
 Ealing (on and after 1st June 1989)
The Telford District Land Registry at Telford Shropshire Greenwich
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Wandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells East Sussex 
Kent
Surrey (only before 1st May 1989)
The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth Dorset 
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
West Sussex
PART II

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (includingthe City and the Temples)
The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester (on and after 1st December 1989) Buckinghamshire 