The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1 October 2010, 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) (No. 2) Order 2009.

As a consequence of this Order, on 1 October 2010, the Land Registry’s Portsmouth, Stevenage and Tunbridge Wells Offices will cease to be proper offices and the administrative areas previously dealt with by them will be administered by offices that remain proper offices, as shown in the following table—

Administrative area	Former proper office	New proper office
Barking & Dagenham	Stevenage	Telford
Brighton & Hove	Portsmouth	Coventry
City of London	Stevenage	Wales
East Hampshire	Portsmouth	Weymouth
East Sussex	Portsmouth	Coventry
Hackney	Stevenage	Wales
Havant	Portsmouth	Weymouth
Havering	Stevenage	Birkenhead
Hertfordshire	Stevenage	Leicester
Inner and Middle Temple	Stevenage	Wales
Isle of Wight	Portsmouth	Weymouth
Islington	Stevenage	Wales
Kent	Tunbridge Wells	Nottingham
Medway	Tunbridge Wells	Nottingham
Newham	Stevenage	Telford
Portsmouth	Portsmouth	Weymouth
Redbridge	Stevenage	Birkenhead
Tower Hamlets	Stevenage	Wales
Waltham Forest	Stevenage	Wales
West Sussex	Portsmouth	Durham

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.