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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 16th March 1992.
(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—
 North Yorkshire shall not form part of the district of the York District Land Registry before 5th October 1992 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 13th November 1991We concur,
Gregory Knight
Nicholas Baker
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 20th November 1991
SCHEDULE
PART I

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead CheshireMerseysideStaffordshire Hammersmith and FulhamKensington and Chelsea
The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry West Midlands
The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon  BexleyBromleyCroydonSutton
The Durham District Land Registry at Durham ClevelandCumbriaDurhamNorthumberlandSurreyTyne and WearNorth Yorkshire (only before 5th October 1992)
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester BerkshireGloucestershireOxfordshireWarwickshireWiltshire
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill  BarnetBrentThe City of LondonThe Inner Temple and the Middle TempleCamdenCity of WestminsterHarrowIslington
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull HumbersideLincolnshireNorfolkSuffolk
The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester BuckinghamshireLeicestershire
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes Greater ManchesterLancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham DerbyshireNottinghamshireSouth YorkshireWest Yorkshire
The Peterborough District Land Registry at Peterborough BedfordshireCambridgeshireEssexNorthamptonshire
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth AvonCornwallDevonIsles of ScillySomerset
The Portsmouth District Land Registry at Portsmouth East SussexIsle of Wight
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage Hertfordshire Barking and DagenhamEnfieldHackneyHaringeyHaveringNewhamRedbridgeTower HamletsWaltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea Hereford and WorcesterAll counties in Wales EalingHillingdonHounslow
The Telford District Land Registry at Telford Shropshire GreenwichKingston upon ThamesLambethLewishamMertonRichmond upon ThamesSouthwarkWandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells Kent
The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth DorsetHampshireWest Sussex
PART II

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The York District Land Registry at York on and after 5th October 1992 North Yorkshire