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Session 2005 - 06 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament

Commons Bill [HL]

Commons Bill [HL]
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, are published separately as Bill 115—EN.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Secretary Margaret Beckett has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a)
of the Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Commons Bill [HL] are compatible with the
Convention rights.
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Contents
Part 1
Registration
Introductory
1    Registers of common land and greens
2    Purpose of registers
3    Content of registers
4    Commons registration authorities
5    Land to which Part 1 applies
Registration of rights of common
6    Creation
7    Variation
8    Apportionment
9    Severance
10    Attachment
11    Re-allocation of attached rights
12    Transfer of rights in gross
13    Surrender and extinguishment
Registration, deregistration and exchange of land
14    Statutory dispositions
15    Registration of greens
16    Deregistration and exchange: applications
17    Deregistration and exchange: orders
Conclusiveness and correction of the registers
18    Conclusiveness
19    Correction
Information etc
20    Inspection
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21    Official copies
Transitory and transitional provision
22    Rectification of mistakes etc under the 1965 Act
23    Transitional
Supplementary
24    Applications etc
25    Electronic registers
Part 2
Management
Commons associations
26    Establishment
27    Procedure for establishment
Status and constitution of commons associations
28    Status
29    Constitution
30    Constitution: supplementary
Functions of commons associations
31    Functions
32    Ancillary powers
33    Consent
34    Enforcement of rules
35    Rules: supplementary
Commons associations: supplementary
36    Consequential provision
37    Variation and revocation of establishment orders
Part 3
Protection
Works on common land
38    Prohibition on works without consent
39    Consent: general
40    Consent: procedure
41    Enforcement
42    Schemes
43    Power to exempt
44    Supplementary
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Intervention powers
45    Powers of local authorities over unclaimed land
46    Powers relating to unauthorised agricultural activities
Abolition of powers of approvement and inclosure
47    Approvement
48    Inclosure
Part 4
Supplementary and general
Amendments and repeals
49    Minor and consequential amendments
50    Repeals
51    Power to amend enactments relating to common land or greens
52    Power to amend enactments conferring functions on national authorities
Commencement and transitional provision
53    Commencement
54    Severance: transitional
55    Natural England
General
56    Orders and regulations
57    Crown application
58    Interpretation
59    Short title
60    Extent
Schedule 1   —    Authorised severance
Schedule 2   —    Rectification of mistakes etc under the 1965 Act
Schedule 3   —    Registration: transitional provision
Schedule 4   —    Works: supplementary
Schedule 5   —    Minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 6   —    Repeals
Part 1   —
Repeals relating to registration
Part 2   —
Repeals relating to works
Part 3   —
Repeals relating to approvement and inclosure

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