Citation, commencement, application and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Assets of Community Value (England) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on the day after they are made.
2
These Regulations apply in relation to England only.
3
In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Localism Act 2011;
“compensation review” means a review requested in accordance with regulation 16;
“the list”, in relation to a local authority, means the list maintained by the authority of land in that authority’s area that is land of community value, and “listed” and “listing” are to be interpreted accordingly;
“listing review” means a review under section 92(2) of the Act (review of local authority’s decision to include land in its list);
“neighbouring authority”: a local authority in England is a neighbouring authority in relation to any land if any part of the boundary of that authority’s area is also part of the boundary of the area of the responsible authority;
“registrar”, “register” (other than in regulation 4(3)) and “registered estate” have the meaning given in section 132(1) of the Land Registration Act 20022;
“responsible authority” in relation to any land means the local authority in whose area the land is situated;
“a statutory compulsory purchase” in relation to any land, means a a purchase of the land by a purchaser authorised by or under an Act to acquire the land compulsorily (whether or not a purchase pursuant to the authorisation).
4
For the purposes of these Regulations, land is owned by a single owner if—
a
the land is owned by the same person; or
b
in a case not within sub-paragraph (a), the land is held on trusts and was settled on those trusts by the same settlor.