{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-land-rectification-of-registers-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-land-rectification-of-registers-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-land-rectification-of-registers-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—\n“the 1965 Act” means the Commons Registration Act 1965;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989;\n“the 1971 Regulations” means the Commons Commissioners Regulations 1971;\n“the Chief Commissioner” means the Chief Commons Commissioner, or the Commissioner appointed under section 17(3) of the 1965 Act to act for the time being in his stead;\n“the General Regulations” means the Commons Registration (General) Regulations 1966;\n“the Clerk” means the Clerk for the time being to the Commons Commissioners;\n“concerned authority” means a local authority (other than the registration authority) or a National Park Authority whose area includes any part of the land to which the objection relates;\n“Form” followed by a number means the form so numbered in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, or a form to substantially the same effect;\n“local authority” means the council of a county, a London Borough, a district, and a parish or community council;\n“objection” means a notice of objection under the 1989 Act to the inclusion of land on a register, and “objector” shall be construed accordingly;\n“registration” means a registration of land as common land or town or village green under section 4 of the 1965 Act, and “registered” shall be construed accordingly;\n“registration authority” means the registration authority for the purposes of the 1965 Act; and\n“register unit” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 10 of the General Regulations.\n(2) A requirement to publish a notice or other document is a requirement to cause it to be published in a newspaper circulating in the area of the land affected by the objection to which that notice or document relates.\n(3) A requirement to display a notice or other document or copies thereof is a requirement to treat it for the purposes of section 232 (public notices) of the Local Government Act 1972 as if it were a public notice within that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/1727"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 196611471, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 70"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/311/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:27:28.721398+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}