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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1995, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:
 “district land registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Land Registration Act 1925;
 “the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order.
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(1) The name of the Durham District Land Registry shall be changed to the Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry.
(2) Subject to the change of name effected by paragraph (1), there shall continue to be district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.
(3) There shall be new district land registries bearing the names specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule.
(4) The district of each district land registry comprises the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of the Schedule.
Irvine of Lairg, C.
Dated 16th June 1997We concur,
Bob Ainsworth
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissionersof Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 17th June 1997
SCHEDULE
Article 2
PART I

(1) (2)
District Land Registry Administrative Areas
The Birkenhead District Land Registry CheshireHammersmith and FulhamKensington and ChelseaMerseysideStaffordshireStoke-on-Trent
The Coventry District Land Registry West Midlands
The Croydon District Land Registry BexleyBromleyCroydonSutton
The Durham (Southfield House) District Land Registry(formerly the Durham District Land Registry) DarlingtonDurhamHartlepoolMiddlesbroughNorthumberlandRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesTyne and Wear
The Gloucester District Land Registry BerkshireBristolGloucestershireOxfordshireSouth GloucestershireWarwickshire
The Harrow District Land Registry BarnetBrentCamdenCity of WestminsterThe City of LondonHarrowIslingtonThe Inner Temple and theMiddle Temple
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry East Riding of YorkshireKingston upon HullLincolnshireNorfolkNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireSuffolk
The Leicester District Land Registry BuckinghamshireLeicesterLeicestershireMilton KeynesRutland
The Lytham District Land Registry Greater ManchesterLancashire
The Nottingham District Land Registry DerbyDerbyshireNottinghamshireSouth YorkshireWest Yorkshire
The Peterborough District Land Registry BedfordshireCambridgeshireEssexLutonNorthamptonshire
The Plymouth District Land Registry Bath and North East SomersetCornwallDevonIsles of ScillyNorth SomersetSomerset
The Portsmouth District Land Registry Brighton and HoveEast SussexIsle of WightWest Sussex
The Stevenage District Land Registry Barking and DagenhamEnfieldHackneyHaringeyHaveringHertfordshireNewhamRedbridgeTower HamletsWaltham Forest
The Swansea District Land RegistryCofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe EalingHereford and WorcesterHillingdonHounslow
The Telford District Land Registry GreenwichKingston upon ThamesLambethLewishamMertonRichmond upon ThamesShropshireSouthwarkWandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry Kent
The Weymouth District Land Registry BournemouthDorsetHampshirePoolePortsmouthSouthamptonSwindonWiltshire
The York District Land Registry North YorkshireYork
PART II

(1) (2)
District Land Registry Administrative Areas
The Durham (Boldon House) District Land Registry CumbriaSurrey
The District Land Registry for Wales Cofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru All counties and county boroughs in Wales