Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Compulsory Registration of Title Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2001.

(2) In this Order “local government district” means a local government district constituted by the Local Government (Boundaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992(1).

Compulsory registration area

2.  It is hereby declared that the local government districts listed in the Schedule to the extent that they fall within the County of Down(2) shall be a compulsory registration area for the purposes of entry 2(3) in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 from 1st February 2001.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 23rd October 2000.

L.S.

Arthur H. Moir

A senior officer of the

Department of Finance and Personnel