2007 No. 3517

land registration, england and wales

The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2007

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 100(3) of the Land Registration Act 20021, hereby makes the following Order—

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1 April 2008.

Applications to which this Order applies2

1

This Order applies to any application to the registrar except an application delivered to the registrar—

a

in accordance with a written arrangement as to delivery made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer, or

b

under the provisions of any relevant notice given under Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Rules 20032.

2

In this article “conveyancer” means—

a

a solicitor,

b

a licensed conveyancer within the meaning of section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 19853,

c

a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, or

d

a duly certificated notary public.

Designation of the proper office3

1

The proper office for the receipt of an application to which this Order applies is any office of the land registry specified in column 1 of the Schedule which is opposite an administrative area shown in column 2 of the Schedule in which the land to which that application relates is wholly or partly situated.

2

In the Schedule, a reference to a named office of the land registry does not include a reference to any sub-office of that office.

Revocation4

The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 20034 and the Land Registration (Proper Office) (Amendment) Order 20055 are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Michael WillsMinister of StateMinistry of Justice

SCHEDULE

Article 3

Column 1

Proper office of the land registry

Column 2

Administrative Area

Land Registry, Birkenhead (Old Market) Office

Knowsley District

Liverpool District

Sefton District

St Helens District

Staffordshire

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Wirral District

Land Registry, Birkenhead (Rosebrae) Office

Cheshire

Halton

Hammersmith and Fulham

Kensington and Chelsea

Warrington

Land Registry, Coventry Office

Birmingham District

Coventry District

Dudley District

Sandwell District

Solihull District

Walsall District

City of Wolverhampton District

Worcestershire

Land Registry, Croydon Office

Bexley

Bromley

Camden

Croydon

Kingston upon Thames

Merton

Sutton

City of Westminster

Land Registry, Durham Office

Cumbria

Darlington

Durham

Gateshead District

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Newcastle upon Tyne District

North Tyneside District

North Yorkshire

Northumberland

Redcar and Cleveland

South Tyneside District

Stockton-on-Tees

Sunderland District

Surrey

York

Land Registry, Gloucester Office

Bracknell Forest

City of Bristol

Gloucestershire

Oxfordshire

Reading

Slough

South Gloucestershire

Warwickshire

West Berkshire

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Land Registry, Kingston Upon Hull Office

East Riding of Yorkshire

City of Kingston upon Hull

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

Suffolk

Land Registry, Lancashire Office

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Lancashire

Land Registry, Leicester Office

Buckinghamshire

Leicester

Leicestershire

Milton Keynes

Northamptonshire

Rutland

Land Registry, Lytham Office

Bolton District

Bury District

Manchester District

Oldham District

Rochdale District

Salford District

Stockport District

Tameside District

Trafford District

Wigan District

Land Registry, Nottingham (East) Office

Barnsley District

Doncaster District

City of Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

Rotherham District

Sheffield District

Land Registry, Nottingham (West) Office

Bradford District

Calderdale District

City of Derby

Derbyshire

Kirklees District

Leeds District

Wakefield District

Land Registry, Peterborough Office

Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Essex

Luton

City of Peterborough

Southend-on-Sea

Thurrock

Land Registry, Plymouth Office

Bath & North East Somerset

Cornwall

Devon

Isles of Scilly

North Somerset

City of Plymouth

Sedgemoor

Taunton Deane

Torbay

West Somerset

Land Registry, Portsmouth Office

City of Brighton & Hove

East Hampshire

East Sussex

Havant

Isle of Wight

Portsmouth

West Sussex

Land Registry, Stevenage Office

Barking and Dagenham

Hackney

Havering

Hertfordshire

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple

Islington

City and County of The City of London

Newham

Redbridge

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

Land Registry, Swansea Office

Cofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa

Abertawe

Barnet

Brent

Ealing

Enfield

Haringey

Harrow

Hillingdon

Hounslow

Land Registry, Telford Office

Greenwich

County of Herefordshire

Lambeth

Lewisham

Richmond upon Thames

Shropshire

Southwark

Wandsworth

County of The Wrekin (otherwise known as The Wrekin)

Land Registry, Tunbridge Wells Office

Kent

Medway

Land Registry, Wales Office

Cofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa Cymru

All counties and county boroughs in Wales

Land Registry, Weymouth Office

Basingstoke and Deane

Bournemouth

Dorset

Eastleigh

Fareham

Gosport

Hart

Mendip

New Forest

Poole

Rushmoor

South Somerset

Southampton

Swindon

Test Valley

Wiltshire

Winchester

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1 April 2008, designates particular offices of the land registry as the proper office for the receipt of specified descriptions of application under the Land Registration Act 2002. It replaces the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003 and the Land Registration (Proper Office) (Amendment) Order 2005.

As a consequence of this Order, on and after 1 April 2008, the Land Registry’s Durham (Boldon), Harrow and York Offices will cease to be proper offices and there will be one Durham proper office, administered initially from the Southfield House and Boldon House buildings. The following table shows the effect of the changes—

Administrative area

Former proper office

New proper office

Brent

Harrow

Swansea

Camden

Harrow

Croydon

City of Westminster

Harrow

Croydon

East Riding of Yorkshire

York

Kingston Upon Hull

Harrow

Harrow

Swansea

Islington

Harrow

Stevenage

North Yorkshire

York

Durham

City and County of The City of London

Harrow

Stevenage

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple

Harrow

Stevenage

York

York

Durham

Those administrative areas previously dealt with by the Durham (Boldon) or Durham (Southfield) proper offices

Durham (Boldon) or Durham (Southfield)

Durham

No impact assessment has been prepared on the basis that there will be no change in the costs incurred by business as a result of having to deliver certain applications to one land registry office rather than to another.