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Skip to main contentSkip to navigationlegislation.gov.ukThe National ArchivesHelpSite MapAccessibilityContact UsCymraegHomeAbout UsBrowse LegislationNew LegislationChanges To LegislationSearch LegislationSearch LegislationTitle: (or keywords in the title)Year:Number:Type:All Legislation (excluding draft)All Primary Legislation UK Public General Acts UK Local Acts Acts of the Scottish Parliament Acts of the National Assembly for Wales Measures of the National Assembly for Wales Church Measures Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Old Scottish Parliament Acts of the English Parliament Acts of the Old Irish Parliament Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain Northern Ireland Orders in Council Measures of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Northern Ireland ParliamentAll Secondary Legislation UK Statutory Instruments Wales Statutory Instruments Scottish Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Statutory Rules Church Instruments UK Ministerial Orders UK Statutory Rules and OrdersAll Draft Legislation UK Draft Statutory Instruments Scottish Draft Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Draft Statutory RulesAll Impact Assessments UK Impact AssessmentsSearchAdvanced SearchCommons Act 2006You are here:2006 c. 26Whole Act without SchedulesTable of ContentsContentExplanatory NotesMore ResourcesPrevious: IntroductionNext: SchedulePlain ViewPrint OptionsWhat VersionLatest available (Revised)Original (As enacted)Advanced FeaturesShow Explanatory Notes for Sections Opening OptionsOpen whole ActOpen Act without schedulesOpen Schedules onlyMore ResourcesOriginal Print PDFCorrection Slip - 01/07/2015View moreStatus:This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).Part 1RegistrationIntroductory1Registers of common land and greensEach commons registration authority shall continue to keep—
11Re-allocation of attached rights(1)Where—
12Transfer of rights in grossThe transfer of a right of common which is registered in a register of common land or town or village greens but is not registered as attached to any land—
13Surrender and extinguishment(1)The surrender to any extent of a right of common which is registered in a register of common land or town or village greens—
Registration, deregistration and exchange of land14Statutory dispositions(1)Regulations may make provision as to the amendment of a register of common land or town or village greens where by virtue of any relevant instrument—
15Registration of greens(1)Any person may apply to the commons registration authority to register land to which this Part applies as a town or village green in a case where subsection (2), (3) or (4) applies.
(i)a charge registered under the Land Charges Act 1972 (c. 61); or
16Deregistration and exchange: applications(1)The owner of any land registered as common land or as a town or village green may apply to the appropriate national authority for the land (“the release land”) to cease to be so registered.
17Deregistration and exchange: orders(1)Where the appropriate national authority grants an application under section 16 it must make an order requiring the commons registration authority to remove the release land from its register of common land or town or village greens.
Conclusiveness and correction of the registers18Conclusiveness(1)This section applies to land registered as common land, or as a town or village green, which is registered as being subject to a right of common.
19Correction(1)A commons registration authority may amend its register of common land or town or village greens for any purpose referred to in subsection (2).
Information etc20Inspection(1)Any person may inspect and make copies of, or of any part of—
21Official copies(1)An official copy of, or of any part of—
Transitory and transitional provision22Non-registration or mistaken registration under the 1965 ActSchedule 2 (non-registration or mistaken registration under the Commons Registration Act 1965 (c. 64)) has effect.
23Transitional(1)Schedule 3 (transitional provision) has effect.
Supplementary24Applications etc(1)Regulations may make provision as to the making and determination of any application for the amendment of a register of common land or town or village greens under or for the purposes of this Part.
25Electronic registers(1)Regulations may require or permit the whole or any part of a register kept under this Part to be kept in electronic form.
Part 2ManagementCommons councils26Establishment(1)The appropriate national authority may, for any area or areas of land to which this section applies, establish a body corporate to carry out functions conferred under this Part.
27Procedure for establishment(1)This section applies where the appropriate national authority proposes to make an order under section 26 establishing a commons council.
Status and constitution of commons councils28Status(1)A commons council is not to be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown or as enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown.
29Constitution(1)The appropriate national authority must by regulations prescribe standard terms as to the constitution and administration of commons councils (in this Part, the “standard constitution”).
30Constitution: supplementary(1)This section applies in relation to terms as to the constitution and administration of a commons council contained in—
Functions of commons councils31Functions(1)An order under section 26 is to confer on a commons council functions relating to any one or more of the following—
32Ancillary powers(1)A commons council has the power to do anything which it considers will facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the carrying out of its functions.
33Consent(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3), nothing in this Part authorises a commons council to do anything on the land for which it is established without the consent of a person with an interest in the land, where that person’s consent would otherwise be required.
(3)A commons council does not need the consent of any other person with an interest in the land for which it is established in order to do anything on the land where what is proposed to be done could be done without that person’s consent by any person who has a right of common over the land.
34Enforcement of rules(1)A person who breaches a rule to which subsection (2) applies is guilty of an offence.
35Rules: supplementary(1)Any power to make rules conferred on a commons council under section 31 includes power to vary or revoke the rules made by the council.
Commons councils: supplementary36Consequential provision(1)The appropriate national authority may by order under section 26 make any provision specified in subsection (2) if it appears to the authority desirable to do so in consequence of functions conferred on a commons council in relation to any land.
37Variation and revocation of establishment orders(1)The appropriate national authority may by order under section 26 revoke a previous order under that section establishing a commons council only if it is satisfied that—
Part 3Works38Prohibition on works without consent(1)A person may not, except with the consent of the appropriate national authority, carry out any restricted works on land to which this section applies.
39Consent: general(1)In determining an application for consent under subsection (1) of section 38 in relation to works on land to which that section applies, the appropriate national authority shall have regard to—
40Consent: procedure(1)Regulations may make provision as to the procedure to be followed in the making and determination of applications under sections 38(1) and 39(5).
41Enforcement(1)Where any works are carried out on land to which section 38 applies in contravention of subsection (1) of that section, any person may apply to the county court in whose area the land is situated.
42Schemes(1)This section applies in relation to works on relevant land where, by virtue of section 38(1), the works may not be carried out without the consent of the appropriate national authority.
43Power to exempt(1)The appropriate national authority may by order provide that section 38 is not to apply to—
44Supplementary(1)Schedule 4 (which makes supplementary provision relating to works on common land) has effect.
Part 4MiscellaneousIntervention powers45Powers of local authorities over unclaimed land(1)This section applies where—
46Powers relating to unauthorised agricultural activities(1)This section applies where it appears to the appropriate national authority that—
Abolition of powers of approvement and inclosure etc47Approvement(1)The Commons Act 1285 (13 Edw 1 c. 46) (power of approvement) shall cease to have effect.
48Inclosure(1)Section 147 of the Inclosure Act 1845 (c. 118) (power to exchange common land for other land) shall cease to have effect.
49Notice of inclosure(1)Section 31 of the Commons Act 1876 (c. 56) (three months' notice of claim to inclose to be given in local papers) shall cease to have effect.
(2)In section 3 of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 (c. 71), for “Sections thirty and thirty-one” substitute “Section 30”.
Commons Act 189950Schemes under the Commons Act 1899(1)The Commons Act 1899 (c. 30) is amended as follows.
(a)in subsection (1), for the words from “their district” to the end substitute “in the public interest”;
Vehicular access51Vehicular accessSection 68 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) shall cease to have effect.
Part 5Supplementary and generalAmendments and repeals52Minor and consequential amendmentsSchedule 5 (minor and consequential amendments) has effect.
53RepealsSchedule 6 (repeals, including consequential repeals and repeals of spent and obsolete enactments) has effect.
54Power to amend enactments relating to common land or greens(1)The appropriate national authority may by order amend any relevant Act so as to secure that—
55Power to amend enactments conferring functions on national authorities(1)A national authority may by order amend or repeal any provision of a local or personal Act passed before this Act which applies to common land for any of the following purposes—
Commencement and transitional provision56Commencement(1)The preceding provisions of this Act, except section 9 and Schedule 1 and sections 54 and 55, come into force in accordance with provision made by order by the appropriate national authority.
57Severance: transitional(1)In relation to any area of England and Wales, the reference in subsection (1) of section 9 to a register of common land or town or village greens shall, during the relevant period in relation to that area, be read as a reference to such a register kept under the Commons Registration Act 1965 (c. 64).
58Natural EnglandAny reference in a provision of this Act to Natural England shall, in relation to any time after the coming into force of that provision but before the coming into force of section 1(4) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, be read as a reference to English Nature.
General59Orders and regulations(1)An order or regulations under this Act may make—