Commons Act 2006

Part 1Registration

1Registers of common land and greens

2Purpose of registers

3Content of registers

4Commons registration authorities

5Land to which Part 1 applies

Registration of rights of common

11Re-allocation of attached rights

12Transfer of rights in gross

13Surrender and extinguishment

Registration, deregistration and exchange of land

14Statutory dispositions

15Registration of greens

15ARegistration of greens: statement by owner

15BRegister of section 15A statements

15CRegistration of greens: exclusions

16Deregistration and exchange: applications

17Deregistration and exchange: orders

Conclusiveness and correction of the registers

18Conclusiveness

Information etc

21Official copies

Transitory and transitional provision

22Non-registration or mistaken registration under the 1965 Act

Supplementary

24Applications etc

25Electronic registers

Part 2Management

Commons councils

26Establishment

27Procedure for establishment

Status and constitution of commons councils

30Constitution: supplementary

Functions of commons councils

32Ancillary powers

34Enforcement of rules

35Rules: supplementary

Commons councils: supplementary

36Consequential provision

37Variation and revocation of establishment orders

38Prohibition on works without consent

39Consent: general

40Consent: procedure

43Power to exempt

44Supplementary

Part 4Miscellaneous

Intervention powers

45Powers of local authorities over unclaimed land

46Powers relating to unauthorised agricultural activities

Abolition of powers of approvement and inclosure etc

49Notice of inclosure

Commons Act 1899

50Schemes under the Commons Act 1899

Vehicular access

51Vehicular access

Part 5Supplementary and general

Amendments and repeals

52Minor and consequential amendments

54Power to amend enactments relating to common land or greens

55Power to amend enactments conferring functions on national authorities

Commencement and transitional provision

57Severance: transitional

58Natural England

59Orders and regulations

60Crown application

61Interpretation

SCHEDULE 1Authorised severance

Severance by transfer to public bodies

1(1) A right of common to which section 9 applies...

Temporary severance by letting or leasing

2(1) A right of common to which section 9 applies...

Severance authorised by order

3(1) The appropriate national authority may by order make provision...

SCHEDULE 1AExclusion of right under section 15: England

1For the purposes of this Schedule, all means of challenging...

2Paragraph 7 of the first column of the Table does...

3Paragraph (a) of the entry in the second column corresponding...

4Paragraphs (b) to (d) of the entry in the second...

5Paragraph (a) of the entry in the second column corresponding...

6Paragraph (c) of the entry in the second column corresponding...

SCHEDULE 1BExclusion of right under section 15: Wales

1In this Schedule— “ operational development ” means any development...

2An event specified in the entry in the second column...

SCHEDULE 2Non-registration or mistaken registration under the 1965 Act

1In this Schedule “the 1965 Act” means the Commons Registration...

Non-registration of common land

2(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Non-registration of town or village green

3(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Waste land of a manor not registered as common land

4(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Town or village green wrongly registered as common land

5(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Buildings registered as common land

6(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Other land wrongly registered as common land

7(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Buildings registered as town or village green

8(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

Other land wrongly registered as town or village green

9(1) If a commons registration authority is satisfied that any...

10(1) Regulations may make provision as to the payment of...

SCHEDULE 3Registration: transitional provision

Interpretation

1In this Schedule “the 1965 Act” means the Commons Registration...

Transitional period for updating registers

2(1) Regulations may make provision for commons registration authorities, during...

3At the end of the transitional period, any right of...

4(1) Regulations may make provision for commons registration authorities to...

5Regulations under paragraph 2 or 4 may in particular include...

Effect of repeals

6The repeal by this Act of section 1(2)(b) of the...

7The repeal by this Act of section 21(1) of the...

Ownership of common land or town or village green

8(1) Where the ownership of any land is registered in...

Vesting of unclaimed land

9(1) The repeal by this Act of section 8 of...

SCHEDULE 4Works: supplementary

Metropolitan commons

1In section 5 of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1866 (c....

2(1) The Schedule to the Ministry of Housing and Local...

National Trust property

3(1) Section 29 of the National Trust Act 1907 (c....

4(1) Section 23 of the National Trust Act 1971 (c....

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Transitional provision

6In its application to any works carried out on or...

7The prohibition in section 38(1) does not apply to works...

SCHEDULE 5Minor and consequential amendments

Countryside Act 1968 (c. 41)

1(1) The Countryside Act 1968 is amended as follows.

Animals Act 1971 (c. 22)

2In section 11 of the Animals Act 1971, for the...

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69)

3In section 52(2C) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981—...

Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4)

4In Schedule 3 to the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act...

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)

5In section 61(9) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order...

Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)

6In Schedule 9 to the Environment Act 1995, in paragraph...

Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37)

7(1) The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 is...

Land Registration Act 2002 (c. 9)

8(1) The Land Registration Act 2002 is amended as follows....

SCHEDULE 6Repeals

Part 1Repeals relating to registration

Part 2Repeals relating to works

Part 3Repeals relating to approvement and inclosure

Part 4Repeal relating to schemes under the Commons Act 1899

Part 5Repeal relating to vehicular access

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Commons Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 26

An Act to make provision about common land and town or village greens; and for connected purposes.

[19th July 2006]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—