The Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England) Order 2014

Citation and application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England) Order 2014.

(2) This Order applies in relation to England.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1965 Act” means the Commons Registration Act 1965(1);

“the 2006 Act” means the Commons Act 2006;

“the other registration areas” means the registration areas in England of all commons registration authorities that are neither part of the pilot areas nor part of the 2014 pilot areas;

“the pilot areas” means the registration areas in England, as at 1st October 2008, of the commons registration authorities specified in the Schedule to the Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4 and Savings) (England) Order 2008(2); and

“the 2014 pilot areas” means the registration areas in England, as at 15th December 2014, of Cumbria County Council and North Yorkshire County Council.

Commencement of provisions

3.—(1) In relation to the 2014 pilot areas the following provisions of the 2006 Act come into force on 12th November 2014 so far as is required for the making of regulations under or in relation to any of them, and on 15th December 2014 for all other purposes—

(a) sections 1, 2 and 3;

(b) sections 6 to 8;

(c) sections 10 to 14;

(d) sections 18 to 21;

(e) section 22 and Schedule 2;

(f) section 23 and Schedule 3 (to the extent that they are not already in force in relation to those areas);

(g) Schedule 5, paragraph 3, and section 52 insofar as it relates to that paragraph;

(h) Schedule 5, paragraphs 6 to 8 (to the extent that they are not already in force in relation to those areas), and section 52 insofar as it relates to those paragraphs;

(i) the entry relating to the 1965 Act in Part 1 of Schedule 6 (repeals relating to registration) to the extent of repealing sections 1 to 3, 10 to 12, 13 (insofar as the repeal of section 13 has not already been commenced), 14 to 16 and 19 (insofar as the repeal of section 19 has not already been commenced), and section 53 insofar as it relates to that entry.

(2) In relation to the other registration areas and to the extent described in paragraph (3), the following provisions of the 2006 Act come into force on 12th November 2014 so far as is required for the making of regulations under or in relation to any of them and on 15th December 2014 for all other purposes—

(a) section 3;

(b) section 19, except for subsections (2)(b) to (e) and (4)(a);

(c) sections 20 and 21; and

(d) Schedule 2, paragraphs 1 and 6 to 10, and section 22 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs.

(3) The provisions in paragraph (2) are commenced only to the extent that they enable an application to any of the other registration areas to amend its register of common land or its register of town or village greens under—

(a) section 19 of the 2006 Act, for the purpose given in section 19(2)(a) (correcting a mistake made by the registration authority in making or amending an entry in the register); or

(b) Schedule 2 to the 2006 Act (non-registration or mistaken registration under the 1965 Act), paragraph 6, 7, 8 or 9.

Transitional provision

4.—(1) This article applies in relation to the other registration areas.

(2) Until the coming into force of section 1 of the 2006 Act in relation to any such area, the provisions commenced by article 3(2) and any regulations made under those provisions are to apply in relation to that area as if, in section 61(2)(b) of the 2006 Act, for the words “Part 1 of this Act” there were substituted “sections 1 and 3 of the Commons Registration Act 1965(3)”.

Savings

5.—(1) This article applies in relation to the 2014 pilot areas.

(2) Paragraph (3) applies where—

(a) an application for the amendment of a register has been made to a commons registration authority before 15th December 2014, pursuant to regulations under section 13(c) of the 1965 Act; and

(b) the commons registration authority has not determined the application before that date.

(3) The commons registration authority shall continue to deal with the application on and after 15th December 2014 as if section 13(c) of the 1965 Act had not been repealed.

(4) In relation to any amendment made to a register before 15th December 2014, section 14(b) of the 1965 Act continues to apply as if it had not been repealed.

de Mauley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

11th November 2014