Commons Act 2006

Commons Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 26

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Registration

Supplementary

Section 25 Electronic registers

152. Section 25 enables the appropriate national authority to make regulations permitting or requiring commons registration authorities to maintain commons registers in an electronic form. Subsection (1) provides that the regulations may relate to part of a register: for example, regulations may provide only for maps contained in a register to be kept in an electronic form. Subsection (3) enables regulations to make provision as to the process of conversion of a register to an electronic form: regulations may require authorities to consult on a provisional version of the register, which will enable persons to comment in particular on the accuracy of the authority’s digitisation of maps contained in the registers.