The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Scope and Interpretation

2.—(1) These Regulations apply to applications made to a registration authority under section 15(1) or (8) of the 2006 Act to register land as a town or village green.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 2006 Act” means the Commons Act 2006;

“concerned authority”, in relation to an application to a registration authority, means a local authority (other than the registration authority) in whose area any part of the land affected by the application lies; and “local authority” means a county, county borough or community council;

“form 44” and “form 45” mean the forms so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations or those forms with any variations that the circumstances may require;

“the General Regulations” means the Commons Registration (General) Regulations 1966(1); and “General Regulation” followed by a number means the regulation so numbered in the General Regulations; and

“registration authority” means a commons registration authority.

(3) Any requirement for a registration authority to send anything to “the applicant” is, where a solicitor has been instructed for the purposes of an application, deemed to be satisfied by sending it to the solicitor or, where two or more persons have jointly made an application and no solicitor has been instructed, to the person whose name appears first on the application form.

(4) A requirement for a registration authority to stamp any document is a requirement to cause an impression of its official stamp as described in General Regulation 3 to be affixed to it, which must bear the date mentioned in the requirement or (where no date is mentioned) the date when it was affixed.

(5) Form 44 may be in the English or Welsh language, or both.

(6) Form 45 must be in both the English and Welsh language.

(1)

S.I. 1966/1471, as amended by S.I. 1968/658, 1968/989, 1969/1843, 1980/1195, 1982/210, 1989/2167, 1990/311, 1994/2567 and 2003/994 (W.143) and as modified by S.I. 1991/2684