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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-england-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2504",
  "legislation_title": "The Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-england-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2006 Act shall come into force on 1st October 2006—\n(a) section 45 (powers of local authorities over unclaimed land);\n(b) section 47 (approvement);\n(c) section 49 (notice of inclosure);\n(d) section 51 (vehicular access);\n(e) in Schedule 3 (registration: transitional provision), paragraph 9 (vesting of unclaimed land), and section 23 insofar as it relates to that paragraph;\n(f) in Schedule 4 (works: supplementary), paragraph 6 (transitional provision), and section 44(1) insofar as it relates to that paragraph;\n(g) in Schedule 5 (minor and consequential amendments), sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 7 (Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37)) and sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 7 insofar as it relates to sub-paragraph (5), and section 52 insofar as it relates to those provisions;\n(h) the following entries in Part 1 of Schedule 6 (repeals relating to registration), and section 53 insofar as it relates to those entries—\n(i) Commons Registration Act 1965, to the extent of repealing sections 8, 9 and 13(a);\n(ii) Local Government Act 1972, section 189(1) and (2);\n(iii) Local Government Act 1985, Schedule 8, paragraph 10(6);\n(iv) Dartmoor Commons Act 1985, section 8;\n(v) Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989;\n(vi) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, section 46(1);\n(vii) Greenham and Crookham Commons Act 2002, section 33(1);\n(i) the following entries in Part 2 of Schedule 6 (repeals relating to works), and section 53 insofar as it relates to those entries—\n(i) Metropolitan Commons Act 1866, section 21;\n(ii) Commons Act 1876, in section 30, the words from “Any person aggrieved” to the end of the section;\n(iii) Commons Act 1899, section 21;\n(iv) Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, in Schedule 7, the entry relating to the Commons Act 1899;\n(j) the following entries in Part 3 of Schedule 6 (repeals relating to approvement and inclosure) and section 53 insofar as it relates to those entries—\n(i) Commons Act 1285;\n(ii) Law of Commons Amendment Act 1893.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c.64; section 8 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), section 189(2) and by the Land Registration Act 2002 (c.9), Schedule 11, paragraph 7(1) and (2); section 9 was amended by the Land Registration Act 2002 (c.9), Schedule 11, paragraph 7(1) and (3); section 13 was amended by the Law of Property Act 1969 (c.59), Schedule 2, Part I."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c.51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1985 c.xxxvii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1989 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "2000 c.37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "2002 c.i."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1866 c.122."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1876 c.56; section 30 was amended by the Administration of Justice (Appeals) Act 1934 (c.40), Schedule, Part I, and by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), Schedule 11, Part 4, paragraph 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1899 c.30; section 21 was amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c.49)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1965 c.56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "13 Edw 1 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1893 c.57."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2504/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:21:58.180184+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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