New Forest Act 1964

1 Alteration of perambulation of New Forest. U.K.

(1) (a) Subject to the provisions of this Act the perambulation of the New Forest shall be altered so as to include the areas shown coloured pink on the deposited plans (hereinafter referred to as “the added areas”) and so as to exclude the areas shown coloured green on the said plans (hereinafter referred to as “the excluded areas”).

(b) The perambulation of the New Forest as altered by paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be that shown by the inner edge of the red line on the deposited plans.

(2) The powers of the verderers under the New Forest Acts 1877 to 1949 and the provisions of the byelaws made by the verderers under those Acts and for the time being in force shall extend and apply within the added areas and shall cease to apply within the excluded areas.

(3) The byelaws made from the time to time by the Forestry Commissioners under [F1 section 46 of the M1 Forestry Act 1967] with respect to the New Forest shall subject to the provisions of that section and of section 16(3) of this Act apply to any lands within the added areas over which rights of common of pasture exist.

(4) Subject to the provisions of this Act the lands which are designated on the additional plans certified under section 4(4) of the M2 New Forest Act 1949 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1949”) as extended by section 2(3) of this Act as lands to which are attached rights of common of pasture or a privilege of pasture over any part of the added areas shall be treated as lands to which are attached rights of common of pasture within the perambulation of the New Forest as altered by this Act.

(5) (a) In this Act “the deposited plans” means the plans deposited in connection with the Bill for this Act in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments House of Lords and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the Clerk of the Hampshire County Council and the Clerk of the Wilts County Council on 25th November 1963 and the plan so deposited on 24th February 1964 and “the deposited book of reference” means the book of reference to the deposited plans deposited in the offices and with the Clerks aforesaid on 25th November 1963 containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the land which may be used under the provisions of section 3 of this Act.

(b) The sheet numbered 2 in the plans deposited in the offices and with the Clerks aforesaid on 25th November 1963, having been superseded by the plan so deposited on 24th February 1964, shall be deemed to be omitted from the said plans.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10), s. 47(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 10.

M2 1949 c. 69.