The Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1968

8.  In Form 9—

(a) the following shall be substituted for the marginal note >3> at the end of the application:—

“>“3> If the applicant is a body corporate or charity trustees the application must be signed by the secretary or some other duly authorised officer.”;

(b) in paragraph 1 of the Statutory Declaration in Support, after “1.”, there shall be inserted the reference “2”, and, in the same paragraph “made” shall be substituted for “signed”;

(c) the following shall be substituted for paragraph 2 of that Declaration and for the marginal note >3> thereto:—

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(d) in the first paragraph of Note 2, for the words “(a) by the owner of the right;”; there shall be substituted the words “(a) by the owner of the right or in certain cases (see below) by someone on his behalf or in his stead;”;

(e) the following shall be substituted for the last paragraph of Note 2:—

“In certain cases a person may be entitled to apply on behalf of the owner of the right or in his stead. Examples are (a) a receiver appointed under section 105 of the Mental Health Act 1959(1); (b) charity trustees where the right of common is vested in the Official Custodian for Charities; (c) trustees for the purposes of the Settled Land Act 1925(2) authorised by order under section 24 of that Act. In such cases mention should so far as possible be made in part 3 of (a) the Act of Parliament, statutory instrument, order of court or other authority under which the applicant claims to be entitled to apply; (b) the capacity in which he applies; and (c) the name and address of the person on whose behalf or in whose stead the application is made, and whether that person is owner, landlord or tenant. The registration authority has power to call for such further evidence of the right of the applicant to make the application as it may reasonably require.

Where charity trustees apply (whether the right is vested in themselves or in the Official Custodian) the fact should be stated, and the name of the charity given, in part 3.”

(1)

1959 c. 72.

(2)

1925 c. 18.