7Validity of new registers
(1)(a)Upon the determination by the county council of all matters affecting the new registers under section 6 (Determination of new registers) of this Act, the new registers shall be certified by the proper officer.
(b)If, within the period of six months from the date of the first publication under section 5 (Notification of new registration) of this Act of notice of the drawing of the new registers, no such representations as are referred to in subsection (1) of the said section 6 are made to the county council in respect of any matter affecting the new registers, the new registers shall be certified by the proper officer at the expiration of that period.
(c)The certification of the new registers under this subsection shall be made by a note in the general parts of the new registers signed by the proper officer.
(2)On the certification by the proper officer of the new registers under subsection (1) above, then—
(a)the new registers shall become and be the registers of common land and of town or village greens for the registration area of the county council; and
(b)the destroyed registers shall cease to have effect.
(3)Nothing in this Act shall give a registration or other entry in the new registers any greater validity than it would have had if—
(a)it had appeared in substantially the same form in the destroyed registers; and
(b)the destroyed registers had been drawn in accordance with the statutory requirements made by or under the Act of 1965; and
(c)this Act had not passed.