
1 
This Order may be cited as the Registration of Title Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st December 1988.
2 

(1) In addition to the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to the Registration of Title Order 1987 (being the areas in England and Wales in which registration of title to land is already compulsory on sale) registration of title shall be compulsory on sale on and after 1st December 1988,
(a) in the districts of Aberconwy, Arfon, Carmarthen, Carrick, Ceredigion, Dinefwr, Dwyfor, East Cambridgeshire, East Staffordshire, Fenland, Hambleton, Kerrier, Meirionnydd, North Cornwall, Penwith, Preseli, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, South Pembrokeshire, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Torridge, and West Devon, and
(b) in the administrative area of the Isles of Scilly.
(2) Accordingly, on and after 1st December 1988, registration of title to land shall be compulsory on sale in the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order.
3 
As from 1st December 1988 the Registration of Title Order 1987 shall cease to have effect.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 2(2)


(1) (2)
County or Administrative area Areas of compulsory registration
Avon The whole county
Bedfordshire The whole county
Berkshire The whole county
Buckinghamshire The whole county
Cambridgeshire The whole county
Cheshire The whole county
Cleveland The whole county
Clwyd The whole county
Cornwall The whole county
Cumbria The whole county
Derbyshire The whole county
Devon The whole county
Dorset The districts of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, Poole, and Weymouth and Portland
Durham The whole county
Dyfed The whole county
East Sussex The whole county
Essex The districts of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock and Uttlesford
Gloucestershire The whole county
Greater London The whole administrative area
Greater Manchester The whole county
Gwent The whole county
Gwynedd The whole county
Hampshire The whole county
Hereford and Worcester The districts of Bromsgrove, Hereford, Redditch and Worcester
Hertfordshire The whole county
Humberside The whole county
Isle of Wight The whole county
Isles of Scilly The whole administrative area
Kent The whole county
Lancashire The whole county
Leicestershire The whole county
Lincolnshire The district of Lincoln
Merseyside The whole county
Mid Glamorgan The whole county
Norfolk The districts of Great Yarmouth and Norwich
Northamptonshire The whole county
Northumberland The districts of Blyth Valley, Castle Morpeth and Wansbeck
North Yorkshire The whole county
Nottinghamshire The whole county
Oxfordshire The whole county
Powys The whole county
Shropshire The districts of Bridgnorth and The Wrekin
Somerset The districts of Taunton Deane and West Somerset
South Glamorgan The whole county
South Yorkshire The whole county
Staffordshire The whole county
Suffolk The districts of Ipswich and Waveney
Surrey The whole county
Tyne and Wear The whole county
Warwickshire The whole county
West Glamorgan The whole county
West Midlands The whole county
West Sussex The whole county
West Yorkshire The whole county
Wiltshire The districts of Thamesdown and West Wiltshire