The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) and Dedicated Highways (Landowner Statements and Declarations) (England) Regulations 2013

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations—

(a) may be cited as the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) and Dedicated Highways (Landowner Statements and Declarations) (England) Regulations 2013;

(b) come into force on 1st October 2013; and

(c) apply in relation to England.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980;

“the 2006 Act” means the Commons Act 2006;

“appropriate authority” means—

(a)

in relation to a map or statement deposited or declaration lodged under section 31(6) of the 1980 Act, an appropriate council; and

(b)

in relation to a statement and map deposited under section 15A of the 2006 Act, a commons registration authority.

“authorised person” means a “conveyancer” as defined in rule 217A(1) of the Land Registration Rules 2003(1).

“relevant office” means—

(a)

where the commons registration authority has specified an office for the purpose of these Regulations on that authority’s website(2), the office so specified;

(b)

otherwise, the principal office of the commons registration authority.

“register” means the register which the commons registration authority is required to keep under section 15B(1) of the 2006 Act with respect to maps and statements deposited under section 15A of that Act.

(1)

S.I. 2003/1417. Rule 217A was inserted by regulation 4 of the Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1410) with effect from 1 October 2011, being the day on which section 71 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29) came into force (see article 2(1)(c) of the Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 11, Transitory and Transitional Provisions and Related Amendments) Order 2011, S.I. 2011/2196 (C. 79), and regulation 1 of S.I. 2011/1410).

(2)

A person without access to the internet can contact the commons registration authority by telephone to determine what the relevant office is.