LegalizeThe Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008
Made: 21st July 2008
Laid before Parliament: 24th July 2008
Coming into force: 1st October 2008
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PART 1 — Preliminary
Title, commencement and application
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Interpretation
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Official stamp of registration authority
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Appointment of persons to discharge functions of a registration authority
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PART 2 — The Registers
Form of the registers
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Register units
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Method of registration
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Replacement of register sheets
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Register maps
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Contents of register maps
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Register map overlays
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Fresh editions of register maps
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Supplemental maps
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Continuing validity of existing register entries
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PART 3 — Applications and proposals to amend the registers
Scope of this Part
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Making an application
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Application fees
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Making a proposal
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Land descriptions
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Management of application
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Registration authority’s duty to publicise application
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Applicant’s duty to publicise application
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Registration authority’s duty to publicise proposal
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Contents of notice of application or proposal
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Inspection of copies of documents
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Representations
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Responsibility for determining applications and proposals
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Method of determining applications and proposals
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Notice of public inquiry or hearing
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Public inquiries: general provisions
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Pre-inquiry meeting
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Procedure at inquiries
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Hearings
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Site inspections
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Changes of procedure
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Consultation requirement
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Action to be taken following determination of application or proposal
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Award of costs in relation to certain applications
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PART 4 — Transitional Period
The transitional period and transitional application period
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Notice of the transitional period
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Review of the registers
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Determination of applications and proposals to amend the registers
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Amendment of registers after end of transitional period
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PART 5 — Miscellaneous
Declaration of entitlement to right of common
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Operation at law of relevant instruments effecting statutory dispositions
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Severance by transfer to Natural England
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Matters affecting the public
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Registration under Land Registration Act 2002
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Deregistration and exchange: action to be taken by registration authority on receipt of order
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Vacant benefices
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PART 6 — Supplemental
Electronic communications
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Service of documents
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Inspection and copying of documents
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Official copies
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Revocations and transitional provisions
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SCHEDULE 1 — Registration authorities
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SCHEDULE 2 — Forms
Form 1
| COMMONS ACT 2006 | NOTE: This part of the register contains— | Official stamp of registration authority |
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| REGISTER OF | particulars of any agreement under section 4(3) of the Act having the effect of adding land to, or taking land from, the registration area; particulars of any transfer, to or from the registration authority, of responsibility for maintaining any register unit, otherwise than under section 4(3) of the Act; and particulars of any land situated in the area of the registration authority to which, by virtue of section 5 of the Act, the registration provisions do not apply. | |
| GENERAL PART—Sheet number | ||
| No. and date of entry | Entries | No. and date of entry |
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Form 2
| COMMONS ACT 2006 | NOTE: This section contains the registration of the land comprised in the register unit | Official stamp of registration authority |
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| REGISTER OF LAND SECTION—Sheet No. | Register unit No. Edition No. | |
| REGISTER OF LAND SECTION—Sheet No. | See Overleaf for notes | |
| No. and date of entry | Description of the land, reference to the register map, registration particulars, etc. | |
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| No. and date of note | Notes | No. and date of note |
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Form 3
| COMMONS ACT 2006 | NOTE: This section contains the registration of every right of common registered under the Act as exercisable over the whole or any part of the land described in the land section of this register unit. | Official stamp of registration authority |
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| REGISTER OF RIGHTS SECTION—Sheet No. | Register unit No. Edition No. | |
| REGISTER OF RIGHTS SECTION—Sheet No. | See Overleaf for notes | |
| 1. No. and date of entry | 2. No., date and cause of application | 3. Name and address of every applicant for registration or amendment, and the capacity in which they applied |
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| No. and date of note | Notes | No. and date of note |
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SCHEDULE 3 — Model and Standard entries
PART 1 — Model Entries
Model Entry 1 — For the general part of the register.
Agreement between registration authorities
Model Entry 2 — For the general part of the register.
Transfer from one registration authority to another
Model Entry 3 — For the rights section of the register.
Newly created right of common attached to land
Model Entry 4 — For the rights section of the register.
Variation of a right of common
Model Entry 5 — For the rights section of the register.
Apportionment of a right of common
Model Entry 6 — For the rights section of the register.
Attachment of right of common
Model Entry 7 — For the rights section of the register.
Re-allocation of attached right of common
Model Entry 8 — For the rights section of the register.
Transfer of right of common held in gross
Model Entry 9 — For the rights section of the register.
Surrender and extinguishment of right of common
Model Entry 10 — For the rights section of the register.
Declaration of entitlement to attached right of common
Model Entry 11 — For the rights section of the register.
Declaration of partial entitlement to exercise attached right of common
Model Entry 12 — For the rights section of the register.
Cancellation of declarations of partial entitlement to exercise attached right of common
Model Entry 13 — For the rights section of the register.
Deregistration and exchange: amendment of right where replacement land registered as new register unit
In the register relating to the replacement land (‘register unit CL Y’)
Model Entry 14 — For the rights section of the register.
Severance by transfer of a right of common
Model Entry 15 — For the land section of the register.
Deregistration of part of registered area
Model Entry 16 — For the land section of the register.
Deregistration of whole of registered area
Model Entry 17 — For the land section of the register
Registration of new land as addition to registered area
Model Entry 18 — For the land section of the register.
Registration of new land as new register unit
Model Entry 19 — For the land section of the register.
Town or village green wrongly registered as common land
In the town or village greens register (‘register unit VG Y’)
Model Entry 20 — For the land section of the register
Deregistration of part of registered area and registration of replacement land
Model Entry 21 — For notes, land section of the register.
Note of matters affecting the public
Model Entry 22 — For notes, land section of the register.
Note of matters affecting the public
Model Entry 23 — For notes, ownership section of the register.
Registration under Land Registration Act 2002
The freehold estate in the part of the land comprised in this register unit lying south of the line A-B-C on the register map has been registered under the Land Registration Act 2002, with title number SZ234567.
Model Entry 24 — For ownership section of the register.
Registration under Land Registration Act 2002
For note in the ownership section of the register
The registration at entry No. 1 overleaf has been deleted under paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 3 to the Commons Act 2006, the freehold estate in the land to which it applied having been registered under the Land Registration Act 2002, with title number SZ234567.
In ownership section of the register
PART 2 — Standard Entries
Standard Entry 1 — For register map.
Indorsement
- “Register Map of [Common Land] [Town or Village Greens] (Sheet No. …..). This is the …. edition of this [map] [sheet] ”
Standard Entry 2 — For register or register map.
Indorsement
- “This [map] [sheet]* was replaced by a fresh edition on … …… 20….”
Standard Entry 3 — For column 5 of the rights section.
Supplemental maps
- “The land at …………. as shown [hatched blue]* within the boundary on the supplemental map bearing the number of this registration”
Standard Entry 4 — For the supplemental map.
Supplemental maps
- “Supplemental map referred to in column 5 of entry No. …… in the rights section of register unit No. …. in the Register of [Common Land] [Town or Village Greens]* ”
- Delete inapplicable wording or substitute alternative wording, as appropriate.
SCHEDULE 4 — Making an application
Applications under section 6: creation of right of common
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Applications under section 7: variation of right of common
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Applications for the purposes of section 8: apportionment of right of common
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Applications under section 10: attachment of right of common to land
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Applications under section 11: re-allocation of a right of common
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Applications under section 12: transfer of right in gross
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