Greenham and Crookham Commons Act 2002

4 Rights of common

(1) Any person who immediately before the appointed day is entitled to exercise any rights of common over any part of the land shown edged black on the deposited map, being rights—

(a) for the time being registered (whether provisionally or finally) under the 1965 Act; or

(b) registered under the Land Registration Acts 1925 and 1936 (and not extinguished before that day),

shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be entitled to exercise any such rights over the whole of the Common.

(2) No rights of common shall be exercisable over any land shown coloured black, hatched black or cross-hatched black on the deposited map nor over any highway on the Common.

(3) On the appointed day, the registration authority maintaining the register of common land of town and village greens under the 1965 Act which includes land specified in subsection (2) above shall modify the register so as to cancel the registration of the land so specified and of any person as owner of that land.