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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1998, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st March 1999.
(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 Birkenhead District Land Registry shall be changed to the Birkenhead (Old Market) 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 two 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 shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in column 2 in Part I or, as the case may be, Part II of the Schedule.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
G. W. Hoon
Minister of State,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 23rd November 1998We concur,
Jim Dowd
Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 1st December 1998
SCHEDULE
PART I

(1) (2)
District Land Registry Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Old Market) MerseysideStaffordshireStoke-on-Trent
Coventry West Midlands
Croydon BexleyBromleyCroydonKingston upon ThamesMertonSutton
Durham (Boldon House) CumbriaSurrey
Durham (Southfield House) DarlingtonDurhamHartlepoolMiddlesbroughNorthumberlandRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesTyne and Wear
Gloucester Bracknell ForestBristolGloucestershireOxfordshireReadingSloughSouth GloucestershireWarwickshireWest BerkshireWindsor and MaidenheadWokingham
Harrow BrentCamdenCity of WestminsterThe City of LondonHarrowIslingtonThe Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Kingston Upon Hull Kingston upon HullLincolnshireNorfolkNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireSuffolk
Leicester BuckinghamshireLeicesterLeicestershireMilton KeynesRutland
Lytham Greater Manchester
Nottingham (East) NottinghamNottinghamshireSouth Yorkshire
Nottingham (West) DerbyDerbyshireWest Yorkshire
Peterborough BedfordshireCambridgeshireEssexLutonNorthamptonshirePeterboroughSouthend-on-SeaThurrock
Plymouth Bath and North East SomersetCornwallDevonIsles of ScillyNorth SomersetPlymouthSomersetTorbay
Portsmouth Brighton and HoveEast SussexIsle of WightPortsmouthWest Sussex
Stevenage Barking and DagenhamEnfieldHackneyHaringeyHaveringHertfordshireNewhamRedbridgeTower HamletsWaltham Forest
SwanseaCofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Abertawe BarnetEalingHillingdonHounslowWorcestershire
Telford GreenwichHerefordshireLambethLewishamRichmond upon ThamesShropshireSouthwarkWandsworthWrekin
Tunbridge Wells KentMedway Towns
District Land Registry for WalesCofrestrfa Tir Ddosbarthol Cymru All counties and countyBoroughs in Wales
Weymouth BournemouthDorsetHampshirePooleSouthamptonSwindonWiltshire
York East Riding of YorkshireNorth YorkshireYork
PART II

(1) (2)
District Land Registry Administrative Areas
Birkenhead (Rosebrae) CheshireHaltonHammersmith and FulhamKensington and ChelseaWarrington
District Land Registry for Lancashire Blackburn with DarwenBlackpoolLancashire