The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008

Register units E+W

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), each register unit is to consist of two sections, called the land section and the rights section.

(2) In the case of a register unit which was prepared under regulations under the 1965 Act, the register unit is additionally to consist of a third section, called the ownership section.

(3) The land section of each register unit must be in Form 2, and is to—

(a) specify the land comprised in that registration, with a reference to the register map; and

(b) contain any notes entered pursuant to an application under regulation 47 (matters affecting the public) in relation to that land.

(4) The rights section of each register unit must be in Form 3, and is to specify—

(a) the rights of common registered as exercisable over the land comprised in the land section of the register unit, or any part of that land;

(b) the name and address of any person on whose application a right of common was registered, or the registration of a right of common was amended;

(c) the provision of any enactment under or pursuant to which the registration or amendment was made;

(d) in respect of a right of common which is attached to land, the land to which the rights are attached;

(e) in respect of a right of common in gross, the name and address of the owner of that right; and

(f) any declarations made pursuant to regulation 44 (declaration of entitlement to right of common).

(5) A registration authority must allot a distinguishing number to each register unit, and must compile a separate series of register unit numbers for its register of common land and its register of town or village greens.

(6) Each register unit number must bear a prefix as follows—

(a) in the case of a register unit in the register of common land, the prefix ‘CL’; and

(b) in the case of a register unit in the register of town or village greens, the prefix ‘VG’.

(7) The registration authority—

(a) may, from time to time as necessary, add fresh register sheets to a register unit; and

(b) must mark every sheet forming part of a register unit with the number of that unit.