Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2040
LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003
Made
2nd August 2003
Laid before Parliament
7th August 2003
Coming into force
13th October 2003
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 100(3) of the Land Registration Act 2002( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 13th October 2003.
Applications to which this Order applies
2. —(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 2003( 2 ).
(2) In this article “conveyancer” means—
(a) a solicitor, or
(b) a licensed conveyancer within the meaning of section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985( 3 ), or
(c) a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.
Designation of the proper office
3. 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.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
David Lammy
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
2nd August 2003
Article 3
SCHEDULE
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Office of the land registry | Administrative Area |
| Land Registry, Birkenhead (Old Market) Office | Merseyside Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent |
| Land Registry, Birkenhead (Rosebrae) Office | Cheshire Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Warrington |
| Land Registry, Coventry Office | West Midlands Worcestershire |
| Land Registry, Croydon Office | Bexley Bromley Croydon Kingston upon Thames Merton Sutton |
| Land Registry, Durham (Boldon) Office | Cumbria Surrey |
| Land Registry, Durham (Southfield) Office | Darlington Durham Hartlepool Middlesbrough Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees Tyne and Wear |
| Land Registry, Gloucester Office | Bracknell Forest Bristol Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Reading Slough South Gloucestershire Warwickshire West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham |
| Land Registry, Harrow Office | Brent Camden City of Westminster The City of London Harrow Islington The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple |
| Land Registry, Kingston Upon Hull Office | Kingston upon Hull Lincolnshire Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Suffolk |
| Land Registry, Lancashire | Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Lancashire |
| Land Registry, Leicester Office | Buckinghamshire Leicester Leicestershire Milton Keynes Northamptonshire Rutland |
| Land Registry, Lytham Office | Greater Manchester |
| Land Registry, Nottingham (East) Office | Nottingham Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire |
| Land Registry, Nottingham (West) Office | Derby Derbyshire West Yorkshire |
| Land Registry, Peterborough Office | Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Luton Peterborough Southend-on-Sea Thurrock |
| Land Registry, Plymouth Office | Bath and North East Somerset Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly North Somerset Plymouth Somerset:
Torbay |
| Land Registry, Portsmouth Office | Brighton and Hove East Sussex Hampshire:
Isle of Wight Portsmouth West Sussex |
| Land Registry, Stevenage Office | Barking and Dagenham Hackney Havering Hertfordshire Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest |
Land Registry, Swansea Office Cofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa Abertawe | Barnet Ealing Enfield Harringey Hillingdon Hounslow |
| Land Registry, Telford Office | Greenwich Herefordshire Lambeth Lewisham Richmond upon Thames Shropshire Southwark The Wrekin Wandsworth |
| 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 | Bournemouth Dorset Hampshire:
Poole Somerset:
Southampton Swindon Wiltshire |
| Land Registry, York Office | East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire York |