The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008

Supplemental maps E+W

13.—(1) Where—

(a) a right of common attached to any land is to be registered, or

(b) any amendment is to be made to an entry relating to such a right, and that entry does not already contain a map describing the land to which that right is attached,

the registration authority must, subject to paragraph (7), describe that land in the register by means of a map, to be called a supplemental map.

(2) The registration authority must either—

(a) adopt as the supplemental map any map contained in or accompanying the application for registration, or amendment of a registration, which shows the land to which the right of common is attached or any part of that land; or

(b) itself prepare a map showing the land to which the right of common is attached.

(3) The scale of a supplemental map must be not less than 1:10,560 (six inches to one mile).

(4) A supplemental map prepared by a registration authority may identify the land to which the right of common is attached in such manner as the registration authority thinks fit, and the means of identification used must be referred to in column 5 of the entry in the rights section of the register unit to which it relates, in accordance with Standard Entry 3.

(5) The registration authority must—

(a) stamp the supplemental map, with the stamp bearing the date on which the right of common is registered or the registration is amended, and

(b) indorse it in accordance with Standard Entry 4,

and the supplemental map then forms part of the register.

(6) The registration authority must keep all the supplemental maps—

(a) for each register, in register unit order; and

(b) for each register unit, in entry number order.

(7) When registering, or amending the registration of, a right of common which is attached to land that comprises a dwelling, the registration authority may describe that land either—

(a) by entering a description of the dwelling, including the Ordnance Survey grid reference of its location, in column 5 of the rights section of the register; or

(b) by means of a supplemental map.