Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(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 2002(1);
“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.
2002 c.9. There have been amendments to section 132 which are not relevant to these Regulations.