The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014

Revocations, transitional and savings provisions

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54.—(1) The following enactments are revoked—

(a)the Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008(1); and

(b)the Commons Registration (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009(2).

(2) The following enactments cease to have effect in relation to the registration areas in England of Cumbria County Council and North Yorkshire County Council—

(a)the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007(3) (“the 2007 Town or Village Greens Regulations”); and

(b)the Commons (Deregistration and Exchange Orders) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007(4).

(3) Paragraphs (4) and (5) apply in relation to any application made—

(a)to an original registration authority before 1st October 2008; or

(b)to a 2014 registration authority before 15th December 2014,

under section 15 of the 2006 Act in accordance with the 2007 Town or Village Greens Regulations if, by 15th December 2014, the application has not been determined, or if any amendment remains to be made to a register in consequence of the determination of the application.

(4) Nothing in this regulation affects the validity of anything done in relation to an application—

(a)by an original registration authority before 1st October 2008; or

(b)by a 2014 registration authority before 15th December 2014,

which was done in accordance with the 2007 Town or Village Greens Regulations.

(5) These Regulations apply in relation to an application from 15th December 2014, except for—

(a)regulations 15 to 19 and, in regulation 26(3), the words beginning with “where the registration authority” and ending with “to determine it, or”, and Schedule 4; and

(b)any other provision which corresponds (whether or not in identical terms) to a provision of the 2007 Town or Village Greens Regulations which has already been complied with.

(3)

S.I. 2007/457; this instrument and S.I. 2007/2585 ceased to have effect (subject to transitional provisions which are continued in these Regulations) in relation to the original registration authorities by virtue of regulation 55 of S.I. 2008/1961.