The 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
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
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
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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Applications under section 13: surrender or extinguishment of right of common

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Applications pursuant to section 14: statutory dispositions

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Applications under section 15(1): registration of town or village green

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Applications under section 15(8): registration of land as town or village green by its owner

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Applications under section 19(4)(b): amendment of a register of common land or town or village greens

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Applications under paragraph 1(6)(b) of Schedule 1: severance of right of common by transfer to public body

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Applications under paragraph 3(7)(b) of Schedule 1: severance of right of common by order

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Applications under Schedule 2: non-registration or mistaken registration

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: creation of right of common

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: surrender or extinguishment of right of common

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: variation of right of common

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: apportionment of right of common

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: severance of right of common

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: transfer of right in gross

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Applications for the purposes of Schedule 3: statutory dispositions

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SCHEDULE 5 — Application fees

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SCHEDULE 6 — Persons on whom applicant must serve notice of an application

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Signed

Jonathan Shaw — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 21st July 2008

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 26: “appropriate national authority” and “regulations” are defined in section 61(1).

[^f00002]: 1965 c. 64.

[^f00003]: 2000 c. 7; the definition of “electronic communication” was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), Schedule 17, paragraph 158.

[^f00004]: 1990 c. 8.

[^f00005]: Section 19 of the 1965 Act (regulations) was extended by the Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989 (c. 18).

[^f00006]: 1989 c. 18.

[^f00007]: S.I. 2007/457.

[^f00008]: S.I. 2007/2585.

[^f00009]: 1899 c. 30.

[^f00010]: 1866 c. 122, 1869 c. 107, 1878 c. 71, and 1898 c. 43.

[^f00011]: 1876 c. 56.

[^f00012]: 1925 c. 20. Section 193(1) was amended by section 189(4) of, and Schedule 30 to, the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), paragraph 10(5) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), paragraph 7 of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), and paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37).

[^f00013]: S.I. 2004/3391.

[^f00014]: 2000 c. 36.

[^f00015]: S.I. 2007/457.

[^f00016]: S.I. 2007/2585.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2005/219, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00018]: 1845 c. 118. Section 147 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c.67), and was repealed by section 53 of, and Part 3 of Schedule 6 to, the Commons Act 2006 (c.26), subject to a saving provision in article 3(3) of the Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (England) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2584 (C. 98)), which requires any application for an order of exchange under section 147 made before 1st October 2007 to continue to be dealt with after that date as if section 147 remained in force.

[^f00019]: Section 149 was amended by the Statute Law Reform Act 1891.

[^f00020]: 1845 c. 18. Section 99 was amended by Schedule 1 to the Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2). Section 107 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19) and Schedules 1 and 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1965.

[^f00021]: 1899 c. 30.

[^f00022]: 1846 c. 70. Section 11 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67).

[^f00023]: 1930 c. lxxii.

[^f00024]: 1943 No.1. Section 13 was amended by section 48(2) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 7 to, the Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), and by the Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measures of 1960 (section 5), 1983 (section 1(1)) and 1992 (section 8(a)). Section 15 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Commons Act 2006 (c.26).

[^f00025]: 1965 c. 56.

[^f00026]: The Order was confirmed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation (Greater London Parks and Open Spaces) Act 1967 (c. xxix), and is contained in the Schedule to that Act. Article 12 was amended by paragraph 2(1), (2), (3) and (4) of Schedule 4, and Part 2 of Schedule 6, to the Commons Act 2006 (c.26).

[^f00027]: Article 17 was amended by paragraph 2(1), (5) and (6) of Schedule 4, and Part 2 of Schedule 6, to the Commons Act 2006.

[^f00028]: 1968 c. 41. Section 6 was amended by Schedule 30 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), by Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), and by Schedule 24 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67), by paragraph 48(2) of Schedule 4 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12), by paragraph 40(1) and (3) of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5).

[^f00029]: 1981 c. 64. Paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 was amended by S.I. 1985/442.

[^f00030]: 1981 c. 67. Section 19 was amended by paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 15 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34). Paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 was amended by paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 15 to that Act.

[^f00031]: 1990 c. 8.

Editorial notes

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