(1)Notwithstanding anything in section 120 of the Land Registration Act 1925, the registration of title to land shall continue at all times on and after 1st April 1965 to be compulsory on sale—
(a)in any part of Greater London in which immediately before that date such registration was so compulsory; and
(b)in the areas comprised in the existing urban districts of Potters Bar, Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames.
(2)Her Majesty may by Order in Council declare as respects any other part of Greater London specified in the Order that registration of title to land is to be compulsory on sale on and after such date as may be so specified; and nothing in section 122 of the said Act of 1925 shall apply to the making of an Order under this subsection.
(3)Nothing in any Order under subsection (2) of this section shall render compulsory the registration of the title to an incorporeal hereditament or to mines and minerals apart from the surface, or to corporeal hereditaments parcel of a manor and included in the sale of a manor as such.
(4)As soon as the registration of title to land has become compulsory on sale in the whole of Greater London as for the time being constituted at any time on or after 1st April 1965, any area which subsequently becomes part of Greater London shall be deemed to be included in an Order under subsection (2) of this section.
(5)The registration of title to land shall continue to be compulsory on sale in any area by virtue of subsection (1)(a), (2) or (4) of this section notwithstanding that the area in question ceases to be part of Greater London.
(6)Section 123 of the said Act of 1925 (which relates to the effect of that Act in areas where registration is compulsory) shall have effect as if the provisions of subsection (1) of this section were contained in an Order in Council; and section 124 of that Act (which provides that Part XI of that Act shall bind the Crown) shall have effect as if this section were included in the said Part XI.