Commencement and transitional provision
Section 56 Commencement
233.Section 56 governs commencement of the various elements of the Act.
Section 57 Severance: transitional
234.Section 57 makes transitional provision in relation to the commencement of section 9 (severance) and Schedule 1 from 28 June 2005. This is because section 9 will have retrospective effect before other provisions in the Act are brought into force. In particular, it provides that the commons registers, which are otherwise defined in section 61(2), are taken to be the registers kept under the 1965 Act until section 1 is brought into force; and that a right of common severed and transferred to a commons council, Natural England or the Countryside Council for Wales under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 is also not required to be registered in accordance with paragraph 1(6) until section 1 is brought into force.
